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Most experts, however, believe that Syria neither seeks nor could obtain complete domination. "Syria's role is not now and, unless the U.S. forces the issue, never will be absolute," says William Quandt, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "Lebanon cannot have a foreign policy that is fundamentally hostile to Syria, or to Israel for that matter. But it can remain independent and have an internal political life far freer than what is found in Syria...
...battling government secrecy is no novelty for the Washington veteran. Shattuck and the ACLU have consistently opposed the Reagan Administration's effort to force 130,000 federal employees to sign secrecy agreements requiring them to obtain government clearance before speaking publicly or writing about issues within their work. Prior to that, the 1966 Yale graduate played an influential role in persuading Congress not to roll back the Freedom of Information Act, a key legislative safeguard for academic freedom...
...first moves should come within a month and these will probably designed to obtain "better insurance coverage," Lapointe said...
Writers in ancient times were fascinated by Sardis. According to legend, the city was founded by sons of Heracles after the Trojan War. In the Iliad, Homer writes of the city "beneath the snowy Tmolus in the rich land of Hyde." The poet Sappho laments that she cannot obtain the colorful Lydian hat of Sardis for her daughter Cleis. The historian Herodoturs relates that when Cyrus the Great captured Sardis for the Persians after a siege in 547 B.C., he ordered that the vanquished Croesus be burned alive on a funeral pyre. (Croesus survived when Apollo intervened by sending...
During the Moscow summit in 1972, Nixon and Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT I pact and in a joint communiqué pledged to refrain from "efforts to obtain unilateral advantage at the expense of the other, directly or indirectly." The high point of détente, in a literal sense, came in 1975, when Soviet and American spacemen linked up and shook hands 140 miles above the globe during a joint space mission. Meanwhile, troubles back on earth threatened to end the era of good feeling...