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Third world countries, for their part, cannot view the U.N. as only a glorified relief agency, but rather as a cooperative body that requires give and take. Arranging a compromise agreement on U.N. restructuring will require diplomatic efforts that will dwarf Jim Baker's Middle Eastern diplomacy...
...with many another Huston project, the minor characters soon become more diverting than the principals. An eloquent beggar child turns out to be a 40- year-old dwarf, his growth stunted "with stories, with truth, with warnings and predictions." Everyone else in Green Shadows has a similar penchant for the exaggerated anecdote ("Getting to the point," observes one, "could spoil the drink and ruin the day"). Bradbury has a musician's ear, and he makes their boozy exchanges as bright and merry as coins clinking on the bar of a pub. Even the teetotaling George Bernard Shaw has a memorable...
...through the streets, catching innocent bystanders in the crossfire. In the week since independence was recognized, more than 100 have died, and the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav army has refused to intervene. Because of the close intermingling of Bosnia's Muslims, Serbs and Croats, some fear the casualties could eventually dwarf the toll in Croatia, where ethnic violence has taken more than 10,000 lives since last summer...
...totally dominant position in the years to come," says Simon Petermann, professor of international relations at Brussels Free University. "That's a position that, in many respects, the Germans have long held. The difference now is that the old formula casting Germany as an economic giant and a political dwarf no longer holds true...
...country club of his choice." His regular stump speech extolling isolationism, protectionism and fiscal stinginess is seasoned with attacks on "boodling" Congressmen, upholstered think tanks cooking up cockeyed new programs, and softheaded Trilateralists who would bail out Chinese communist Deng Xiaoping, the "85-year-old chain-smoking communist dwarf" but let Macy's go into Chapter...