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When the Clinton administration releases its analysis of the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement this month, NAFTA critics will seize on the data.
We all need to seize the momentum that has recently emerged-agencies must use existing authorities to strategically manage their people; Congress needs to consider some statutory changes in the short term; and all interested parties need to work together toward enactment of more comprehensive civil service reform over time.
Only at the last minute, as Suharto's base eroded and the mass movement threatened to seize power, did they rediscover the need for political reform.
Dan Burton, in an appearance on Good Morning, America , said he had sent a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno urging her to have the FBI seize the Kuhn paperback immediately so it can be examined by its own labs.
Dublin's Irish Independent, reporting optimism in Dublin as well as London, said in an editorial that "the prize is within the negotiators' grasp": "If they fail to seize it, they will surrender to the sinister men lurking in the wings.