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...officials say is needed daily, the U.N. has only managed to distribute 44 tons. Worse, almost half a million more refugees are streaming to other border towns, with 2 million more on the way. Several international relief agencies said today that only massive, concerted intervention by Western governments can avert an unprecedented disaster...
...button issues he began to wave his arms and wag his finger as if he were at a street-corner rally. Zhirinovsky justified his frequently bizarre behavior as "tactical." "It's the sorry state of affairs in this country that forces me to take so tough a stand to avert something even worse," he said. "If there were a healthy economy and security for the people, I would lose all the votes I have...
With the deadline fast approaching, Clinton has started rooting around for a way to avert meting out substantive punishment to China without blatantly ignoring his firmly sated threat. In conjunction with an equally feckless bunch of Congressional co-conspirators, Clinton has seized on the idea of "restricted sanctions" as a sufficiently deceptive device for accomplishing his duplicitous goals. China will not lose MFN status outright; nor will Clinton admit that the calculus of his government places trade relationships over human rights...
When one instance of a lack of communication results in such horrific consequences, all of the parties should take stock of their positions. Hopefully, this one senseless occurrence will focus enough attention on the evolving South African state to avert greater catastrophes in the future...
...advocated violence against anyone it perceived as a threat to Jews. In a 1981 letter to the editor of the New York Times, Goldstein echoed the rabbi's call for the forcible expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the West Bank. "The harsh reality is: if Israel is to avert facing the kinds of problems found in Northern Ireland today, it must act decisively to remove the Arab minority from within its borders," he wrote...