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...nobody opposes him in the legislative branch. I have asked Yeltsin to take a stand against these xenophobic and anti-Semitic statements. I must know where the state stands on this issue. Zhirinovsky's maniacal concepts reflect, in fact, the traditional goal of Russian imperialists to reach the Indian Ocean. As far as they are concerned, we are just some gray mass that happens to be in their way and has no value...
...head of the Space Council, to bird-dog Congress for funds. He celebrated the early space rides of Alan Shepard and John Glenn as if they were great military victories. On space, he could sense the country uniting behind him even as other troubles mounted. "This is the new ocean," he told the people. "The U.S. must sail on it and be in a position second to none...
Zhirinovsky had simple -- but often implausible -- answers for every challenging question. His publicized meeting with an Austrian Nazi, he said, was a "setup." His claim that Russian troops would someday wash their boots in the Indian Ocean meant only that chaos in Muslim countries would require Russian peacekeeping within 20 years. He glibly promised that within months of taking office, he would end homelessness, unemployment and crime...
...have the good fortune to be home warriors. The host nation automatically qualifies as one of the teams that will play in the quadrennial tournament, and no host has ever been eliminated in the Cup's first round. Home-court advantage helps: players can hear the cheers, see the ocean of flags in the stands. Then again, no host country's fans have ever been less fanatic about the sport than Americans. In 1988, when the international federation that governs soccer chose the U.S. as the site for Cup play, it insisted that a professional league be in place...
...receiving them is as old as the subliminal spots for popcorn and soda that advertisers flashed on movie screens in the 1950s. More recently, for instance, mtv blended commercials for a Pizza Hut delivery service with its regular programming by showing pizzas arriving by horseback or out of the ocean for its video jockeys...