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...elected. Jacques Scohy Brussels A Mushroom-Shaped Cloud There is a lot of speculation about the explosion in North Korea that produced a mushroom-shaped cloud [Sept. 27]. Although Pyongyang denies it blew up anything nuclear, I wouldn't mind if North Korea acted as a counterweight to the U.S. People the world over are supposed to accept the opinions and directions of the West and to follow the American way of life. Different viewpoints, which used to be valued by democratic societies, are not very popular these days. Therefore it is good when other nations and cultures...
...third way" between America and its enemies. Chirac's ultimate vision is a France that is mediator and bridge between America and Islam. During the cold war, Charles de Gaulle invented this idea of a third force, withdrawing France from the NATO military structure and courting Moscow as a counterweight to Washington. Chirac, declaring in Istanbul that "we are not servants" of America, has transposed this Gaullist policy to the struggle with radical Islam...
...third way" between America and its enemies. Chirac's ultimate vision is a France that is mediator and bridge between America and Islam. During the cold war, Charles de Gaulle invented this idea of a third force, withdrawing France from the NATO military structure and courting Moscow as a counterweight to Washington. Chirac, declaring in Istanbul that "we are not servants" of America, has transposed this Gaullist policy to the struggle with radical Islam...
...combat experience that would befit the potential chief naval commander of the United States. Second, because three of the four Barbary States--Algiers, Tripoli and Tunis--were part of the Turkish, or Ottoman, Empire. Britain, which rather encouraged the Barbary powers to attack American ships, used Turkey as a counterweight in its war against Catholic powers on mainland Europe. Why shouldn't the U.S. reply in kind by discreetly helping Russia make life hard for the Turks...
...dominoes fell swiftly, as even Penn—Harvard’s traditional counterweight at the top of the conference standings—bowed out of the race following a 6-1 defeat at the Crimson’s hands. In dispatching with its league opponents and locking up a second-straight NCAA tournament berth, Harvard surrendered no more than two points—to Cornell and Yale—and in both those instances, at least one regular top-four player was out of commission due to injury...