Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After years of presidential rhetoric decrying the artificial German division (from Kennedy through Reagan), U.S. officials have almost no choice but to support reunification. The people agree--a recent New York Times poll showed that over two-thirds of Americans think favorably of reunification. If it were only a matter of U.S. agreement, one Germany would be a done deal...
...reunification debate is not a matter of discussion in the Germanies. The debate is largely held abroad. This sentence was taken verbatim from Mr. Klasen's letter, and it is a rather perplexing opinion, coming from a German citizen who might know better...
...give. But the less you have, the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not a mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. This is the only fan in the whole house. It doesn't matter how hot it is, and it is for the guests. But we are perfectly happy...
...final point; as a matter of basic knowledge, the U.S. does not support Israel solely because it is a democracy or a Jewish state. Israel is a stategic asset of unprecedented proportions. I can provide Larew with military and economic data that will prove this beyond a doubt. Egypt receives nearly the same amount of U.S. foreign aid as Israel, though it shows no signs of any sort of democracy. The administration is currently sending legislation through Congress that will permit the sale of M-1 tanks to Saudi Arabia. Remember, the U.S. granted Iran most-favored nation status under...
...audience is left with little hope that Boseman's and Lena's lives, or, for that matter, that the lives of the oppressed South Africans they represent, will ever improve. It can take comfort only from having been witness to an intelligent, powerful testimony--and for having shared a little of the sorrow...