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...resolution would also bind Iraq and Kuwait to settle any outstanding disputes between them by peaceful means. It would recommend recourse to Arab mediation...
Turkey finds itself in a particularly painful bind. Exporters had expected to sell Baghdad $600 million worth of goods, mainly iron, steel and food products. Since the U.S. and most European countries impose strict quotas on some of these imports and the markets for others are saturated, Ankara estimates that 75% of the products destined for Iraq will effectively be rendered worthless: no other foreign importer will be able to buy them...
...crumbling of the Iron Curtain has, if anything, accelerated the quest for ties that will bind across national frontiers. Now that the West is freed from its obsession with the menace to the East, statesmen are likely to be more vigilant against the dangers of nationalism in their midst. And the more willing they are to suppress old motives for making war, the more able they will be to restrain the proliferation of new means...
...bind your sons to exile...
...cited fact that white Southerners have voted overwhelmingly for the national Republican ticket in recent years means less, and more, than is usually attributed to it. So have white Northerners. The instincts that prompt Southerners to support Republican presidential candidates are instincts that bind them in national, rather than regional, solidarity...