Word: flank
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...believes really resulted from China's illegitimate molesting of a U.S. plane in international airspace, and he wants to sound a warning to the Chinese that their conduct was unacceptable to Washington. And that message also helps him manage any domestic political ferment over China on his right flank. But finding his balance on China policy would be a lot easier, of course, if he didn't face some tough calls of potentially epic consequences in the next two weeks...
...Marcos and the other 23 Zapatista leaders, their ski masks firmly in place, rode a flatbed truck onto the jammed, sun-baked plaza, then trooped onto a stage whose backdrop was the massive National Palace, which fills an entire city block. Standing on pedestals that flank its main entrance, young Zapatista sympathizers waved red flags...
...insiders on the center and right flank of Israeli politics believe Arafat knows that Sharon is going to get elected, and plans to turn up the level of violence in the hope of provoking Sharon to abandon his friendly, grandfatherly image and strike back with an iron fist. People who subscribe to this line of thinking believe Arafat can strengthen his case if he keeps negotiating until the moment Sharon takes office, and is then able to blame Sharon for the breakdown. That would play badly for Israel in foreign capitals and bring renewed international pressure...
...Khafji, one of the more important clashes of the ground war. I'd been having tea with an Egyptian general when his phone rang. It was General Schwarzkopf, and they had an animated conversation. Schwarzkopf told the Egyptians that a huge Iraqi assault was expected on the Western flank of allied lines. He was saying they're coming straight at you. So the general let us go out with his special forces, who were setting ambushes along the wadi where the attack was expected. We were lying there in the desert all night with these special forces guys when suddenly...
...assuming Thompson and Whitman are next, it would appear that Bush has soothed all beasts thus far by making his diversity acceptable to his right flank. Right? But ah, the left - there are scattered reports that Senate Democrats will subject Whitman to a hot roasting over her gross ham-handedness with racial profiling in New Jersey. We might even get to see the picture of her frisking the innocent black motorist - and grinning...