Word: abroadly
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...Time last week. "If it had, I wouldn't have written the book." McNamara points to the dangers of underestimating nationalism, of faulty evaluations, of asking the military to achieve more than weapons can deliver. The nation worries through that sort of list every time it sends its troops abroad, to Grenada or Panama or Somalia, fearing that the intervention may turn into "another Vietnam." But wars do not repeat themselves; each arises from a unique set of circumstances. The forces that led the U.S. to fight in Vietnam at all, and in the manner that it did, have changed...
...Hitler's rhetoric regarding Germans living in Czechoslovakia before World War II,Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrevhas caused an uproar in the former Soviet Union. In remarks Tuesday at a defense and foreign policy council meeting, Kozyrev said that Russia will use its armed might to defend Russian nationals abroad. The statement immediately drew the ire of many in Ukraine, the Baltic states and other former Soviet republics with large populations of ethnic Russians. The states were quick to interpret the remarks as an indication ofRussian imperialist aspirations, but Kozyrev on Thursday professed bewilderment at the fuss, saying "What...
Unfortunately, we can also see the reflection in today's post-Holocaust society. In his speech on April 6, National Anti Defamation League Director Abraham H. Foxman cited growing Anti-Semitism in this country and abroad. Particularly disturbing was a 1991 poll that found 31 percent of Americans thought American Jews "too powerful, too successful or too influential...
Foreign policy is on no one's radar scope yet, except Richard Lugar's. Usually when matters abroad are discussed, Lugar's expertise commands bipartisan respect. But now that he's after the big prize, even Lugar has veered offtrack. When Saddam Hussein recently jailed two Americans for straying into Iraq-an action requiring deft diplomacy-Lugar waxed on about sending the Marines to rescue them...
...fairgrounds in Pasadena, Texas. Last year 60,000 people showed up to hear her in Houston, and her Selena Live won a Grammy as the best Mexican-American album. The single Amor Prohibido (Forbidden Love), from her most recent album, has sold 400,000 copies in the U.S. and abroad. Most of her songs are a form of dance pop that combines Top 40 melodies with the rhythms of Colombian cumbia and traditional Texas conjunto-the border music influenced by Czech and German polkas, featuring accordions and bajo sexto guitars. Selena's lyrics, which were often written in English...