Word: stopgaps
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...Gitmo it is, and never mind that shipping the Cubans there is the ultimate in stopgap solutions. "It's a day-by-day situation, and that's how we're looking at it," acknowledges a top White House aide. Another Administration official declines to discuss how stashing the fugitives at Guantanamo might fit into any long-term policy toward Cuba. Says he: "We're focused now on the immediate problem -- handling the refugees." Nor will anyone speculate just how long the Cubans might have to stay in Guantanamo. The standard answer is "Indefinitely," but does that mean months? Years? Until...
...shrewd but tired 76-year-old President to a power-sharing role. Helmut Kohl? Three years after his luminous hour of forging German unification, the Chancellor has the lowest popularity among leading German politicians, according to a recent ZDF television poll. About Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italy's new stopgap Prime Minister, the best that can be said is that he is not a career politician. That happens to be saying a lot: the biggest names in Italian politics, if not the corruption-riddled political structure as a whole, have been heading toward ignominy...
...officials have a ready rejoinder: Operation Restore Hope was never intended to be more than a stopgap. Washington originally moved unilaterally because only the U.S. had the power and will to get soldiers on the scene immediately. The mission focused narrowly on saving lives by moving food supplies past the guns of looters, instituting just enough law and order to get that done but leaving the longer-range jobs of pacification and nation building to the U.N. Says Robert Oakley, the U.S. special envoy who oversaw the political side of the operation: "I compare our mission to taking someone with...
...state. The relocations are coordinated with the Wichita police, who check for outstanding warrants. Project Freedom pays for the initial move, while local congregations agree to assume housing costs and arrange for jobs and education for as long as two years. "It's a stopgap measure," concedes executive director James Copple, who tours the city's rougher neighborhoods on weekend nights wearing a bulletproof vest. "If we have to relocate them, then in some ways we've already lost the battle...
...lawless Mogadishu, where last week a ship loaded with 8,000 tons of food was forced to pay a daily "security fee" of $4,000 until off-loading costs were negotiated. An additional 7,000 tons of food is held hostage in warehouses. But the airlift is only a stopgap. The cure is an end to bloodshed and the beginning of reconciliation...