Word: foes
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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...
...Deng's home; the students gunned down outside Miliangku by a reactionary government in 1919; the many spirits of Tiananmen; the tens of millions who died of hunger in the Great Leap Forward. And finally there was that most troublesome shadow of all, Mao Zedong, Deng's friend and foe, his rival for the soul of a country so ancient it has had the misfortune both to forget its history many times over and to repeat it again and again. Only history will decide who was the greater...
...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...