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...will need to strengthen our capabilities in the areas of intelligence and quick reaction. Intelligence will be particularly important, since our societies demand that we know with reasonable clarity just what we are doing and against whom we are acting. Experience has taught us that one of the best deterrents to terrorism is the certainty that swift and sure measures will be taken against those who engage in it. "Clearly there are complicated moral issues here. But there should be no doubt of the democracies' moral right, indeed duty, to defend themselves...
...last week endorsed a significant reorganization of the Pentagon's high command. The package he accepted was proposed by a blue-ribbon panel led by former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, which was set up in the wake of scandals over military procurement. The most important recommendations: to strengthen the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the ten worldwide theater commanders. By enhancing their authority, the Packard panel hoped to overcome the interservice rivalry that has impeded military planning by the Joint Chiefs and execution by commanders in the field. The President also backed the creation...
...university said in a statement that the Metcalf Center represents the kind of commitment to strengthen scientific and technical education at the college level called for by a recent National Science Foundation report...
Malone claimed that the fight will not weaken the party but will strengthen it. "Quiet following is not what is necessary to make a strong party. Competition in politics is what makes a party grow. The party needs a jump start and this has woken a lot of people...
...punch that rocked the airline business in a single week. Four days later TWA Chairman Carl Icahn said the carrier would buy St. Louis-based Ozark Air Lines for $225 million. That union would increase TWA's annual traffic by 30%, to some 27 million passengers, and strengthen its position as the fourth- largest U.S. airline. The merger would be a coup for Icahn, a New York financier who gained control of TWA only seven months ago. Though a TWA-Ozark deal was already in the works, he rushed to complete the negotiations after the Eastern deal was announced. Icahn...