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...condemnation. The Iraqi dictator has set up an arms- manufacturing and -acquisition operation in Tunisia, according to Africa Confidential, a respected newsletter published in Britain. State Department officials say they have proof that Saddam is using the North African republic as a clearinghouse for black-market weapons purchases to confound the United Nations team monitoring Iraq's chemical- and nuclear-arms program...
...your)) belief that winning a domestic election is as important to us as preserving the peace." Ike won in a landslide and captured 40% of the Jewish vote, still the high-water mark for a Republican. If today's peace talks produce significant progress before next November, Bush could confound everyone by replicating Ike's showing among Jewish voters -- and he would deserve...
...areas of conflict, over land or tradition or scientific collections, years of litigation lie ahead. The Bureau of Indian Affairs will have an uphill battle persuading Native Americans that it is prepared to protect their interests rather than confound them. Given the U.S. government's track record in dealing with this continent's original owners, the task of rebuilding trust will take considerable will and faith on both sides...
...majestic music of Britain's national anthem, familiar to Americans as the tune of My Country, 'Tis of Thee. But the words are another matter, in particular the assertive second verse, which calls on the deity to scatter the monarch's enemies, in phrases much admired by Queen Victoria: "Confound their politics/ Frustrate their knavish tricks." Last month the Church of England's Liturgical Commission suggested substituting a kindlier version, written by a London shoemaker in 1836, for use when the anthem is sung at Remembrance Day services for the dead of the two World Wars. Sample lines: "Lord, make...
...dignified, with utterly no attempt to prettify or embellish. One of its main features, a 2,625-ft.-long, colonnaded, concrete arcade, achieves serenity by way of severity. His 1976 school in the town of Fagnano was a similarly stripped-down collection of elemental components. Yet, as if to confound those who would pigeonhole him as a weltschmerzy ascetic, Rossi took the opposite tack for a family crypt completed in 1987. The little chapel has a sweet brick exterior, with oddly incomplete cornice and a carved-wood interior of pediments, columns and mock windows...