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Chirac: France has important advantages: it is the world's fourth economic and commercial power, a permanent member of the Security Council, a nuclear power and the main contributor of troops to the U.N. We are not an average nation. France also has an old humanist and universalist tradition, strongly attached to human rights and democracy...Our weaknesses are mainly the result of 14 years of lax management, which consisted of spending more than was reasonable and led to the accumulation of deficits and debts. [Another weakness] is a certain resistance to change...The labor unions and professional organizations have...
...support and said they would join in the peacekeeping operation. Chief among these: Russia, whose participation the Clinton Administration had deemed crucial. French Defense Minister Charles Millon gave the mission a boost when he attended the meeting, ending a 29-year French boycott of NATO's military wing. The contributor of 10,000 of the 60,000 peacekeepers, France has a major stake in the largest troop deployment in NATO history. TIME's Bruce Crumley notes that the French now have 7,500 troops in Sarajevo and represent the most experienced contingent of European military units in a divided Serb...
...Yossi's world Philip Roth and his fictional double would be dismissed as a Jewish Amos and Andy, a contributor to "a culture of self-abasement and vulgar excess." Young Halevi's heroes were fighting Jews: the Zionist firebrands of the 1930s; the invincible Israeli army; and U.S. extremists like Rabbi Meir Kahane, who founded the Jewish Defense League...
...knew that coach Wheaton thought she would be a definite contributor," Delellis says. "However, she surpassed all my personal expectations. She is really an incredible player...
...falsely maintaining that GOPAC was involved only in state races. As a result, the commission contends, GOPAC was able to keep secret the names of its donors and how it spent its money. Last week the Washington Post reported that in 1986 Gingrich wrote to a prospective Tennessee contributor making plain his intent to use the group as the all-purpose engine behind a Republican takeover of Congress. An article in the New Yorker, meanwhile, stated a GOPAC official said the group either contributed or funneled large chunks of money to 1994 congressional candidates. If the contributions were direct, they...