Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the miserable conditions for balloting, the U.S. asserts it is better to have a sham vote than no vote at all. "There are two ways to approach the elections," says Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, John Kornblum. "You can approach them idealistically, as an exercise in pure democracy. Or you can view them as a building block in a flawed but so far very successful peace process." Some observers are less optimistic. Says Richard Holbrooke, the architect of the Dayton accords: "Suppose a reasonably free and fair election chooses people who are pledged to separatism, when...
...learned this last fall when I took a semester off to study in Strasbourg, France. The Universite de Strasbourg has no varsity teams. There is no school newspaper, nor political journals, nor even a Model Congress, despite the presence of the European Parliament just a short bus ride from the city center...
Berlin cites domestic and European studies in which the rate fell below 15% when participants were chemically castrated. Such figures attracted California assemblyman Bill Hoge, who, dismayed when McQuay's plea was denied, introduced the California bill. Hoge talks of prevention, not punishment. "We're trying to stop the child molester from striking again, period," he says...
Sources--GOOD NEWS: Journal of the American Medical Association; European Society of Cardiology; Food and Drug Administration BAD NEWS: Annals of Internal Medicine; Journal of the American Medical Association; Lancet...
...membership, but rather wants NATO's charter to reflect standing arrangements for consultation and cooperative action between Russia and the alliance, including joint training and involvement of Russia in peacekeeping activities. While Christopher might be trying to compensate a Russia nervous about NATO's continuing campaign to bring Eastern European nations into the alliance, he may not be offering enough balm. "Russia is very suspicious of NATO," says TIME's Bruce Nelan. "It believes correctly that NATO was created as a military alliance to oppose it. That is why the nervous countries in Eastern Europe want to join. The NATO...