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...UNITA, ITALY: "An invasion is unlikely. Sending in the Marines after a disastrous political and diplomatic zigzag is opposed by the Pentagon and State Department...
These perceptions are hardly fixed or firm. Bosnia is the core of the President's foreign policy problem; Clinton's zigzag alternations between high-minded declarations and failure to implement them, together with the relentless horror of the war, have bled U.S. prestige more than anything else. The steady drumbeat of criticism from pundits and the foreign policy establishment could turn to cheers if his latest bombing initiative in Bosnia marks the beginning, at long last, of a clear and forceful U.S. policy toward that tortured country. But if this improvisation, like so many before it, leads only to further...
...matter," he said. The question-and-answer sessions represented a wary revival of Clinton's on- again, off-again truce with the media, which had reached a new low early in the week after Clinton introduced his Supreme Court nominee. When ABC correspondent Brit Hume asked about "a certain zigzag quality" in White House decision making, the President said peevishly, "How you could ask a question like that after the statement she just made is beyond me," then cut off further questions. Clinton mended fences by joking with Hume and other reporters at his later news conferences...
Before mobilizing the public, however, the new Administration must undertake a thorough review of the sorry, zigzag path of past environmental legislation. If there is anything positive in this pastiche of cumbersome, expensive and irrelevant initiatives, it is the trend championed by the Republican predecessors to move away from regulations and toward market incentives (hint: a gas tax!) to achieve environmental goals. The new team also has the opportunity to rethink the various environmental risks that determine priorities...
...cloth. The Carpet has no head, no voice, and mere tassels for hands and feet. Yet it has a personality that puts most live- action stars to shame. It can mope, strut, cringe. It is a gentleman and a matchmaker. It holds and kisses Jasmine's hand. It makes zigzag stairs of itself at the end of Aladdin's ride with Jasmine and, as she stands on her balcony, coaxes the lad up to kissing level with the princess. "He's very sensitive," says Cartwright, "and always trying to please. It's abstract pantomime...