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...power to summon others and the ability to command attention rank high among the tools of any leader. Last week George Bush wielded both of them artfully in pursuing his long-promised bid to become "the education President." During two crisply photogenic autumn days at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, he convened his Cabinet and the nation's Governors for a historic summit that raised hopes of new national leadership, if not new federal funds, to address the critical problems facing American public education...
...disproportion seems to be based on economic as well as ethnic factors. Air crashes, which entail millions of dollars in losses and mainly affect the affluent middle class, especially outside the U.S., command far more coverage than less glamorous causes of violent death. On the same day that the New York Times was giving front-page play to both air accidents last month, it carried three paragraphs at the bottom of an inside page about rebel action in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed twelve people and wounded 17. Also in the crash aftermath, an alleged coup attempt in Burkina Faso that...
...members of the High Command were implicated in the coup, however, it would mean the plotting against Noriega extended much higher than the lowerlevel officers involved in the rebellion...
...other two arrested members of the High Command were Col. Julio Ow Young and Col. Armando Palacios Gondola. Both had recently served as Defense Forces representatives when the Noriega-controlled government held talks with the civil opposition in August...
...report said the lower-level officers who rebelled were disgruntled over not being promoted. In their only communique, the rebels said they were discarding the entire high command. That communique was signed by a major and two captains...