Word: foreign
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...carry the banner at a very early age, and she has shown an extraordinary amount of courage," says Peter Galbraith, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, describing those years of endurance. "She was treated incredibly badly, yet she has retained a sense of balance--she's charming, she has a sense of humor, and she hasn't turned bitter...
HOWEVER, even though we are optimistic about the international scene and view Bush's recent arms proposals in a favorable light, we remain dismayed at the new president's inertia on the domestic front. For while taking an initial cautious approach may be prudent in matters of foreign policy, it seems ill-advised in matters of domestic policy that desperately need to be addressed. Granted, curtailing the drug epidemic in our cities or reducing the nation's budget deficit may not be exciting or dramatic, but they are as vital to America's future as any conventional arms agreements...
...said that to the best of his knowledge, all foreign students in Beijing have been evacuated from the universities to either embassies or downtown hotels...
...hard to overlook the foreign policy achievements of the new President. The proposed arms reductions, aptly timed for the NATO summit, are critical indicators of the new President's approach to international security. It calls for Moscow to cut in half its troop presence in Eastern Europe--attaining a ceiling of 275,000 soldiers. Accordingly, NATO allies will reduce troops by 30,000 to meet the ceiling...
Along with the foreign debt plan, actions such as these seem more indicative of a confident and directed leader, and hardly support the misconceived notion of Bush as weak and reactive...