Word: nationale
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For a bureaucrat who serves at the pleasure of a dozen bosses, Delors can be short-tempered and occasionally imperious. During one memorable speech last year, he accused a British representative on the 16-member European Commission of being "a lackey of the Labour Party" and referred indelicately to West...
To her supporters, including Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot and the National Organization for Women, she is Mother Courage personified. Dr. Elizabeth Morgan, 42, a plastic surgeon, has spent two years in jail -- without benefit of trial -- for civil contempt of court. Her offense: refusing to disclose the whereabouts of...
At 77, the African National Congress is one of the oldest liberation movements in the world and therefore one of the least effective. Founded by black professionals and hereditary chiefs as a modest political lobby, it turned to "armed struggle" under the guidance of Nelson Mandela after it was outlawed...
Can former National Security Adviser John Poindexter accomplish what Oliver North could not: force Ronald Reagan or George Bush into a courtroom grilling about the Iran-contra scandal? Last week Poindexter's lawyer, Frederick Robinson, insisted that Reagan had ordered the admiral to tell Congress that the NSC staff was...
For nearly 50 years, the U.S. has followed an agricultural policy of showering farmers with subsidies and encouraging them to use plenty of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. U.S. farmers are among the most productive in the world, but their techniques are harming taxpayers and the environment. Chemical runoff is polluting...