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...getting along OK," Myers said. "We've dealt with domestic disaster before, we can deal with it again...
...Charles Pasqua summoned U.S. Ambassador Pamela Harriman to his office to protest the spying. At a second meeting Feb. 10, he demanded that the five CIA officers leave the country immediately. Working their contacts in the French intelligence services, senior CIA officials were assured that the matter would be dealt with behind closed doors. The two countries' spy agencies have had fierce battles over economic secrets, ``but when we fight wars together or life-and-death issues like terrorism, we work closely with the French,'' said a former CIA official...
...conscientious objector, Mendelsohn became involved with the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker Service organization. At that time, he dealt with the Soviet-American conflict, specifically with issues of disarmament. In 1968, a problem arose in a refugee camp in Gaza. The American Friends Service Committee asked Mendelsohn to swing by and help out; he has been involved with the Middle East ever since...
History and political science suggest that voters are more discerning than the critics of ``hyperdemocracy'' (themselves often elites fearful of displacement) have been warning. ``On most major issues we've dealt with in the past 50 years,'' pollster George Gallup Sr. noted in 1984, ``the public was more likely to be right -- based on the judgment of history -- than the legislatures or Congress...
Backed by the CIA, army general Joseph-Desire Mobutu took over the Republic of the Congo in 1965 and later called himself Mobutu Sese Seko. In 1971 he renamed the country Zaire. Throughout his rule, Mobutu has dealt brutally with opponents, civilian and military. His country's mineral wealth and location kept Mobutu valuable to Western interests for years, but when the threat of communist expansion disappeared, his worth diminished. By 1993 his horrific human-rights record and his refusal to yield the throne had led to an economic squeeze of Zaire by three major trading partners--the U.S., France...