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...LATE TO DISCUSS WHETHER THE COUNTRY NEEDS A MULTIPARTY SYSTEM OR NOT. IT IS A FAIT ACCOMPLI...
...that comes with a gigantic if: it assumes the operation in Panama will succeed quickly at a relatively light cost. Of all the lessons of foreign policy, the one that seems to apply most directly to Panama is that a fait accompli will be accepted by domestic and world opinion -- but that few setbacks are as damaging as a fait accompli that is not quite accompli...
...Politburo also would retain their posts, including Jozef Lenart, despised for his collaboration with the Soviets in the post-invasion era. And no Strougal partisans would replace the ousted Politburo members. Hence the appointment of Karel Urbanek, a relative unknown, to the prime ministry. Presented with a fait accompli, Jakes reluctantly resigned, along with six of his Politburo allies...
MUCH ink has been spilled recently, on these pages and elsewhere, on the question of German reunification. And for good reason--it is potentially the most important thing that's happened to the Eastern bloc since Yalta, in which international democracy accepted the fait accompli of a Soviet military blanket over Eastern Europe and thereby condemned millions of its newest members to at least 44 years of political suppression and economic stagnation...
...August press release, White said the plan had been presented to him as a "fait accompli" by O'Malley and another Regent. He called it "personally and professionally objectionable and intolerable" that he was not consulted on the decision, which educators say would severely weaken the Baltimore campus...