Word: existing
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...political force in the Mideast. The United States deals with many countries which have goals we cannot agree with and which use force to accomplish those goals, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, for example, Iraq and Syria have fought against Israel's right to exist and use terrible violence against their own citizens. We deal with those countries to achieve our own goals...
...proclaim the achievement of equality of rights for all always seem to disregard the never-ending stories from all over the country about who's been lynched and who's been denied things like due process. There may in fact come a time when something approximating equal rights will exist in American Institution ask that the self-congratulatory" we've got equal rights" rhetoric be toned down a bit, if for no other reason than out of respects for the friends and families of Anthony Williams, Lennel Geter, William Atkinson and William Turks...
...made plausible to the Palestinians, she must be coached by Becker in the rhetoric of the dispossessed. He impersonates her imagined lover: "You know how the Zionists described my country before they seized it? 'A land without a people for a people without land.' We did not exist! In their minds, the Zionists had already committed genocide; all that remained for them was the fact. And you, the British, were the architects of this great vision. You know how Israel was born? A European power made a present of an Arab territory to a Jewish lobby...
...than just in name, is something this country needs desperately. After the political repercussions of the investigations are over--once the only public mentions of the EPA are made in car commercials mileage estimates--the problem of maintaining a habitable world for our children and their children will still exist...
...even for the Russians. Should they arrive, book lovers among them might experience a sense of déjà vu. From Mexico to the islands of southern Chile and Argentina, there is a burst of literary energy reminiscent of the age of Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Great differences exist between the writers of 19th century Russia and 20th century Latin America, but so do profound similarities. Both groups have had to face provincialism, political suppression and foreign influences that threatened to drown out their native voices...