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Walter Matthau does not have to stretch too far to accurately portray a disheveled subway dispatcher--this is vintage Matthau: New York accent, stained shirts, mussed hair and bulbous nose dipping its way into everyone's business. As we follow Matthau's attempts to thwart the hijackers, the absolutely tangled insanity of this underground city, the subway, comes...
...incident, pointedly designed to thwart attempts at political compromise, enraged the Bush Administration, which recalled its ambassador from Haiti last week. Beyond that swift reaction, Washington's Haitian policy is gridlocked by poor options. On the one hand, frustration over Haiti's deteriorating political and economic situation is running so high that in interviews last week with the New York Times, officials raised the remote prospect of military intervention. Yet at the same time, the Administration was petitioning the federal courts for permission to forcibly repatriate most of the boat people, who are currently residing in tents, ships...
...have enough votes to force constitutional changes and override presidential vetoes. Jean Leca, a leading French expert on Algeria, warns that in such an event, strict social control and dictatorship are likely to follow. Other analysts predict that the military, which is committed to a modernizing, secular state, will thwart such ambitions...
...August coup attempt, and he has steered clear of identification with any faction. He has also repeatedly stressed that his republic is unlikely to lead the charge for radical economic or political change. With Belorussia's independence just four months old, Shushkevich's primary concern seems to be to thwart backsliding, while not winding up isolated...
...could also include the Daily News. But that is not entirely certain. Only hours after the Maxwells declared insolvency, the New York City publication filed its own petition for bankruptcy in the U.S. in an effort to thwart any possible sale of the paper by the British administrator. In their determination to keep the paper open, Daily News unions expressed a willingness to make wage and other concessions. The paper was financially crippled earlier this year by a five-month strike that cost $1 million a day and that ended only after Robert Maxwell bought the paper in March...