Only in some sections does he hit the confident, precise tone of Trainspotting, in which casually deployed official English collides with the vernacular: "You can operate fae the purest of motives but some fuckers will eywis misconstrue it to fit their ain twisted agenda".
Booms to protect areas richest in wildlife, at the river's mouth, were being deployed, officials said.
One-man cars would give the police department at least 1,000 extra officers to deploy, officials said.
Once they are fully deployed, officials expect the Acela to depart every half-hour between Washington and New York and every hour between New York and Boston.
And if American mobile missiles are to be deployed, officials have never been able to settle on a technically and politically acceptable way of doing it.
This month the government deployed officials from Cadivi, the national currency board, to check travelers' documents at the airport, ordering banks to block credit card transactions that come from countries not listed in the original plane ticket.
While not stationing large numbers of troops in the region, it has stockpiled equipment, including 1,200 armored vehicles and 250 Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles that could be quickly deployed, officials have said.
A total of about 7,000 troops may be deployed, officials said.
But the peacekeeping mission would require "at least two months" of preparations before deploying, the official said, and would deploy only once Mali had been "sufficiently secured".
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has begun an intense campaign, deploying Israeli officials and lobbyists to prevent the Clinton Administration from announcing a specific proposal for reviving peace talks with the Palestinians.
