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...federal coffers. It has its own police force. And in 1999 it introduced Germany's deutsche mark as its official currency. Ties with Serbia are so distant that Yugoslavia recently opened a "representative's" office in Podgorica, like some foreign diplomatic mission. In Serbia, on the other hand, the fallout from secession will be considerable. "If Montenegro goes, Serbia would effectively become a new country," Kostunica says. Elections might precipitate the breakup of the ruling coalition and, as President of a nonexistent Yugoslavia, Kostunica would be out of a job - though he would likely stay on, perhaps as the next...
...would be a long battle against inbred, Hollywood-fed macho traditions and the fallout from TMT, Too Much Testosterone. But even a partial victory, even the possibility of imagining that pompous old goat Henry Higgins inverting his sexist question, now that might really turn women on. More than any electrode...
...been reported that President Bush's security aides are advising him to hold off on the sale of Aegis anti-missile destroyers to Taiwan - a hot-button issue for Beijing. That's a strong signal that Washington wants to prevent the fallout from the Hainan incident from determining the course of U.S. Chinese relations...
...been reported that President Bush's security aides are advising him to hold off on the sale of Aegis anti-missile destroyers to Taiwan - a hot-button issue for Beijing. That's a strong signal that Washington wants to prevent the fallout from the Hainan incident from determining the course of U.S. Chinese relations...
...concerns. China's closed authoritarian system is nonetheless complex, with a number of rival power centers competing to shape the national agenda as President Jiang Zemin acts as a ringmaster, mindful of the need to shape his own succession and also, to a degree, of Chinese public opinion. The fallout from the accidental U.S. bombing of China's Belgrade embassy two years ago also revealed the depths of nationalist hostility to the U.S. in China's cities, and Jiang was criticized for being too forgiving over the incident. Given the way China's state-controlled media have portrayed...