Word: established
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...Things have been quiet recently in Georgia, but there are a lot of problems," saysMoscow bureau chief John Kohan. "The economy has broken down, and Shevardnadze is struggling to establish a strong central authority." The bombing, he adds, illustrates the difficulty of theformer Soviet foreign minister'scurrent job. "In some ways it's been harder for Shevardnadze to bring peace to his own country than it was to help end the Cold...
...bully must begin early in its career. That means building relations with China's neighbors, starting with Vietnam.'' It is China's jittery neighbors that are most eager to halt the dangerous expansion of this waking giant. Let's cease the failed policy of appeasing Beijing and re-establish full diplomatic relations with Taiwan, one of the most powerful containment incentives the U.S. has ever presented Beijing with. STEPHEN RABASCO Boston...
Though paired with the European conflicts as World War II, the immense battles in Asia traced their beginnings back to different histories, different cultures, different fears and humiliations. The Pacific was a clash of civilizations: the attempt of a modern, non-Western power to carve its place, if not establish its superiority, in a world dominated and colonized by white people. And the war's beginning came long before the attack on Pearl Harbor...
...Japanese did indeed drive the Westerners out of Asia and the Pacific. They had planned the grand strategy to establish self-sufficiency in the face of what they perceived as a Soviet threat. And they had carried out the blueprint. In 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt's Chief of Staff, Admiral William Leahy, was privately worried that Japan might "succeed in combining most of the Asiatic peoples against the whites." Such paranoia led to the internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent in concentration camps; the fbi also kept close surveillance on alleged Japanese attempts to turn black Americans against...
...meanest people on God's earth." Nonetheless, at 18 she joined the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, a traditional, strictly cloistered order of Franciscan nuns with special devotion to the consecrated host which is, Catholics believe, the Body of Christ. Crippled in a work accident, she vowed to establish a convent of her own in the predominantly Protestant South if she regained the use of her legs. (She did, but still walks with crutches and metal braces...