Word: inter
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Professor of Government, Michael J. Sandel put the state's troubles within a national context. He said the fusion of three major trends--a sense of frustration from 1970s politics, former President Ronald Reagan's anti-big government rhetoric and the "unraveling" of inter-generational agreements--helped create the rancorous climate of state politics...
...brothers consider any signs of celebration a violation of the intifadeh." In West Beirut some churches canceled Palm Sunday processions through Muslim streets or shifted Easter midnight Mass to 3:30 p.m. so that worshipers could be home by nightfall. "How can we celebrate Easter?" asks a refugee from inter-Christian fighting. "We have never been this...
...Inter-office mail and overseas mail are sent over our fax," says a secretary in the Government Department. "We also contact professors all over the world...
Many Germans were also outraged to learn that the U.S. military is free to tap German telephone lines without court orders or even the knowledge of the Bonn government. The Allies retain the right to impose death sentences, control inter-German airspace and veto West German decisions concerning Berlin. The rights are resented even if they go unused, as has been the case with death sentences, and more so when used, as happened in 1988 when a U.S. eavesdropping operation exposed the fact that a West German firm was helping build a poison-gas plant in Libya...
...over files that Federal % District Judge William M. Hoeveler deems essential, that could result in a mistrial or the dismissal of some charges. Some Washington insiders doubt that the trial will result in embarrassing disclosures. "There isn't anything there," says Elliott Abrams, former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter- American Affairs. "It's a bugaboo." Other intelligence experts disagree. According to a former CIA official quoted by the New York Times, Noriega "can make us look terribly meddlesome. He can expose a lot of activities, people and places. At a minimum, it will be embarrassing and difficult. This sort...