Word: continente
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While platoons of U.S. leaders shuttle across the Pacific with metronomic regularity, America's allies in Europe look on with a growing sense of chagrin. Europe, traditionally the primary focus of American foreign relations, seems to many of its leaders to have been relegated by Washington to stepchild status...
Thirty-one black African nations have gained their independence in the past decade, and they all share a curious distinction: in not a single one of them has any government ever been voted out of office. The record is not exactly a testimonial to democratic stability. Political assassinations and military...
Matter of Mood. In his quest for admission, Wilson now knows that he can count on Italy, Belgium, The Nether lands and Luxembourg for enthusiastic support, on West Germany for token support. And France? The British believe that Charles de Gaulle might hesitate to alienate the other five by black...
> "This has always been the country of easy answers-easy in the sense of being simple and straightforward rather than complicated. We're the country of the endless frontier, of the big sky, of manifest destiny, of unlimited resources, of 'Go west, young man,' of opportunity for...
Compromise. Europeans are perplexed because Wilson is talking about reducing Britain's military commitment to the Continent at the same time that he wants to increase the British economic commitment to Europe. In a compromise proposal to keep the Rhine army intact at no damage to Britain's...