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...that Farrakhan and his followers pose any serious threat to Jewish lives or influence. The real danger of Farrakhan's anti-Semitic fulminations is that they divert blacks from their real enemies--in much the same way that right-wing Republicans like Pat Buchanan blame immigrants and liberals for the declining living standards of average workers--and keep them from taking a clear-eyed look at what the Nation of Islam has done, or not done, to advance racial justice. The simple truth is that the Jews Farrakhan so often reviles contributed more in lives, money and effort...
...counteroffensive, or at least a reinforcement of Gorazde, with French troops to fly in aboard American helicopters. That got President Bill Clinton's attention, since he is still determined to keep the U.S., especially its ground troops, from sliding into the war. Though Clinton begrudges any time he must divert from domestic concerns, he spent at least 20 hours last week working on the Bosnia problem with his national-security aides...
...Perhaps as testimony to the financial muscle of AARP, no other Republican members of the panel showed up. Just two Democrats -- Sens. David Pryor of Arkansas and John Breaux of Louisiana -- stood by Simpson. At the end of the day, AARP released a statement accusing Simpson of trying to divert attention from its efforts to protect Medicare and Social Security...
...this makes me wonder whether the U.S. has been drafting a human rights report on other countries just to divert the nation's attention to other countries or to hide some of its own problems from the rest of the world...
French government and intelligence officials tell Sancton they believe the Interior ministry publicized the affair now to divert attention from a wiretapping scandal that has crippled the presidential campaign of French Premier Edouard Balladur. At the White House today, McCurry dropped a similar suggestion. Sancton notes that rumors of these activities have been floating around for two years; U.S. Ambassador Pamela Harriman was informed in late January...