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...underlying significance of Malcolm X evolves from the differing environment that he and Dr. King were addressing. Nonviolent tactics worked in a region that was plagued with de jure segregation and overt discrimination...
...United States has de jure recognized the absorption of East Timor into Indonesia, despite U.N. resolutions to the contrary, Steiner said. The U.S. continues to provide military aid to the Indonesia government, he said...
...rest of Western Europe to follow at a time when governments were eager to ease credit to help their economies recover from recession. Many Europeans saw the bank's unilateral move as a warning that economic and monetary union will simply replace de facto German economic dominance with de jure economic hegemony...
...facto must precede de jure political union. So, if the integrationists have their way at Maastricht, we can fear disaster in the months or years that follow. If a European superstate materializes, it will dematerialize shortly thereafter. And as countries leave the fold to reassert their political sovereignty (Yugoslavia, Western style?), they just might decide to take back their economic sovereignty as well...
...regional tussle escalating into a superpower conflagration have subsided. Immediate threats to Israel's security are not much in evidence. Syria, despite a potent army, is no longer able to tap Moscow for funds and is wooing Washington to attract trade and investment. Egypt has a de jure peace with Israel, Jordan a de facto one. Lebanon is struggling after 16 years of civil war. Iraq is prostrate. And the Palestinians are virtually without patrons. The threat of an oil embargo that could paralyze the U.S. seems distant, given Washington's strong post-Desert Storm ties with Saudi Arabia. Even...