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...lack of any evidence of irresponsibility on our part, combined with its street-corner language, reveal the effort as a desperate, groundless attempt to divert attention from the news (and the council) and focus it on the newspaper...
...effects like 2,500% annual inflation, a 19% drop in gross domestic product last year and the threat of vastly increased unemployment are more than the Russian people can bear. Since December, the parliament, led by Khasbulatov, has been hacking away at Yeltsin's powers, determined to stall or divert the President's efforts to turn Russia's subsidized, militarized economy into a free market. One form of unemployment the Deputies particularly oppose is their own; they have no enthusiasm for new elections in which they might lose their seats...
Jewett says the Task Force was composed of "interested students." While he conceded that they were not a random sample, he denies that the administration tried to divert attention from the issue...
...Laurie Mylroie, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "He wants to mark his victory by humiliating Bush in the closing days of his Administration." Saddam also may have been testing Clinton's mettle by warning that he, Saddam, was capable of stirring up trouble to divert the President-elect from his domestic agenda. Upstaging Clinton's Inaugural preparations was hardly a gambit to win and influence Friends of Bill...
Since last summer, more and more evidence has surfaced indicating that Bush was not, as he claimed, "out of the loop" when the decisions were made to sell arms to Iran in exchange for hostages, and then to divert profits from those sales to aid the Nicaraguan rebel contras...