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The point of this tag-team effort? To persuade Clinton to support an easing of U.N. sanctions on Libya imposed after the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a decade earlier. That, in turn, would be a first step toward allowing American companies back into a country...
Rather than reliance on fear of fratricide and destruction, the ultimate means of attaining national unity is one that may chafe communist authorities even more than Taiwanese independence. If they truly wish to promote cultural integrity and welfare for their denizens (presumably including the residents of Taiwan), they ought to...
In his 1838 address to the young men's lyceum, Lincoln worried that this impulse was responsible for increasing disregard of law, which he thought important because "if destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all...
Lincoln went on to worry that great and ambitious men, living after the great deeds of the Founding, might achieve fame through destruction rather than preservation of political institutions. An ambitious man of the loftiest genius, he wrote, "would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire [distinction] by doing good as...
The focus of non-proliferation efforts during the President's visit will be on getting India and Pakistan to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which may be a long shot given Mr. Clinton's failure to have it ratified on Capitol Hill last year. "Naturally last year's vote...