The inquiry was told that an administration error meant too many passengers were on board the Kwik Fit-owned Bell Jet Ranger helicopter when it crashed in Scotland.

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After all, Talbott has with his pronouncements repeated a grievous error made by the Bush Administration concerning Mikhail Gorbachev: A Kremlin leader reputed to be committed to reform is made the determinant of U.S. policy toward Russia (and, for that matter, its neighbors and former satellites).

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Were the Bush administration to confine itself to such tactical responses to the present crisis, however, it would be making a grave error.

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