To critics of Indonesia's police force, their pitiful effort is further proof of a lack of direction and authority at the top.
There was no organizational direction, no authority, and at the same time, a distance was developing between me and the guy I always thought of as my brother".
A car went out of control and flipped into the air and into oncoming traffic on the Henry Hudson Parkway late last night, injuring several people and temporarily closing the road in both directions, the authorities said.
A tanker truck carrying 8,000 gallons of gasoline overturned on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway yesterday at midday and burst into flames, shooting a geyser of fire over a bustling Queens thoroughfare, sending screaming pedestrians fleeing, and closing the expressway in both directions, the authorities and witnesses said.
Now the truce is moving this country in the opposite direction, the authorities contend, leading to a precipitous drop in violence.
Under Mr. Ashcroft's direction, the authorities have compiled a list of more than 5,000 foreign men living in the United States legally on business, tourist or student visas.
The White House statement, issued shortly after 3 a.m. in Washington on Friday to coincide with the Egyptian morning, took aim at the ruling military council's appointment late Thursday of a new prime minister charged with appointing a government to execute the generals' directions, without independent authority.
Thus we bias the bi-directional BLAST hits procedure in the direction of the authority.
Extensive documentation was passed in both directions, as the authorities and the IRA explored each other's positions.
DECIDES -- further that the funds in the Iraqi Assistance Fund shall be disbursed at the direction of the Authority, in consultation with the Iraqi interim authority, for the purposes set out in Paragraph 14 below; 14.
