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...implement President Clinton's new Haitian refugee policy, the Pentagon announced it has chartered two Ukrainian vessels that will process the U.S.-asylum applications of Haitian boat people at sea. Pending the ships' deployment, though, the Administration returned home more than 1,000 Haitians...
...Gerstner told Time in an interview last month. According to a recent survey of IBM executives, "We've got half of our senior management group that is excited and committed, first to the need for change and second to the type of changes that we're beginning to implement here. And then we've got another half that is in what can best be described as a denial phase, or a 'Well, I'm O.K., but everybody else is a problem.' So they haven't bought into the concept that they want to be part of the solution...
Mandela has always taken the long view, and sometimes this gives him victories in battles that were started decades ago. After the government began to implement its Bantustan policies in the 1960s and '70s, a plan to relegate all blacks to poor, quasi-independent tribal homelands, Mandela urged the . A.N.C. to make peace with the black leaders of these enclaves whom many in the movement scorned as traitors. The A.N.C. shied away from this policy, but he kept arguing his case. In the past three years, however, the A.N.C. has brought these leaders into its embrace...
...recognizing the importance of lower taxes. For example, during the campaign Clinton once spoke of a "middle class" tax cut. And a few months ago the president himself advised Japan that it could rescue itself from economic recession by lowering taxes. Unfortunately for all Americans, Clinton has failed to implement the few economic truths that he seems to understand...
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...