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...public, Tietmeyer backs the single-currency idea. But he has been adamant in calling for strict application of the Maastricht criteria and for ironclad rules to support the euro, so that it will be as strong as the German mark. Some believe that privately he is a single-currency foe fearful of losing his power to the new European Central Bank. Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in an extraordinary open letter last year, branded Tietmeyer's stance as anti-European. "If you continue with your stubborn policies," Schmidt wrote to the banker, "Germany will become isolated...
...approved. A Cuban spokesman said the regime will continue to analyze the other applications and will make decisions "when the Cuban government considers it opportune." The news organizations cleared a major U.S. hurdle last week when Sen. Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee and a bitter foe of the Castro regime, signed off on the idea in a letter to President Clinton. According to the letter, Helms believes that a CNN bureau in Cuba will hasten Fidel Castro's demise...
...rally, while protest leaders begged the crowd to disperse promptly to avoid further provoking riot police. Meanwhile, Pesic and the two other opposition leaders, Vuk Draskovic and Zoran Djindjic, met with French leaders in Paris to further rally international support. In Belgrade, they know, sits not a vanquished foe but a wounded tiger...
While Murphy may be Siedlecki's foremost foe during The Game, the newest Bulldog's greatest challenge will be filling the shoes of his vaunted predecessor...
...ultimately it is the character of Dr. Relling, the Ekdals' cynical, dissipated neighbor, who becomes the dominating symbol of this production. Foil and foe to Gregers, profoundly contemptuous of the latter's lofty "claims of the ideal," convinced that the average man or family (like the Ekdals) needs lies and illusions, not ideals, to survive, the worldweary doctor is played effectively--almost too effectively--by Jack Willis, who cuts a Jack Nicholson-like figure with his sardonic drawl and menacing animus towards Gregers. His is the image that lasts, the voice that crowds out the others and cuts down even...