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During the two years of Watergate, many foreigners never really understood its near paralyzing grip on U.S. public attention. They assumed that the scandal was nothing much more than politics as usual. Many Europeans, for example, thought Americans were being unsophisticated, moralistic and, above all, naive to force a President to resign over what looked to them like a minor matter. The scandal now rocking Washington?involving as it does seemingly hypocritical diplomacy, arms deals and the secret funding of a guerrilla army?is much more comprehensible to the rest of the world, even if some of its features seem...
...United States and keep it at the forefront of the struggle against Israel. The anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, which forms the backbone of the government and includes the Sunnis, has seized upon the support of the West and its Arab allies such as Saudi Arabia to break Syria's grip on Lebanon. Damascus was forced to withdraw its troops from Lebnaon following the February 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri, a former premier, whose death many Lebanese blame on the Syrian regime...
...approval and take away the autonomy of the Central Bank. Disapproval from abroad is even less tolerated, especially from Washington - Chavez told the U.S. to "go to hell" on Sunday after a state department spokesman said the reforms caused concern. Perhaps it is fitting, then, that Chavez's tightened grip on the economy should overlap with the exit of possibly the only government economist left willing to criticize...
...past Lebanese history suggests that, in fact, the country is once again in the grip of an untenable stalemate...
...Besides, Paulson says, the world may run out of patience if Beijing doesn't get a grip on currency and trade issues. The threat of protectionism in the U.S. is very real, he warns: "It's one of the major risks we face. If China were a relatively small economy that was in a period of transition, it would be very easy for the rest of the world to say, 'take your time.' But ... they're already a global economic leader, so they aren't going to get as much time as they might like." China...