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...military assistance to the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in 1990, of its cooperation in the apparently successful effort to freeze North Korea's nuclear-weapons program and of its restraint in using its U.N. Security Council veto against U.S. initiatives. But Washington remains utterly frustrated by insensitivity--if not outright resistance--to other American concerns where China is giving little ground or no ground...
...official. "He can't get to the West Bank even with a helicopter." Peres' most potent means of coercing Arafat was the threat of sending Israeli forces "to any corner" to track down terrorists--in other words, back into areas now under Arafat's control. That would be an outright violation of the accords and would destroy Arafat's credibility with his supporters...
...Unlike Buchanan, who counts on the media's alarm at his success to provide plenty of airtime, Alexander desperately needs both some credible allies and some help on the ground. "They had no survival strategy," muttered a campaign consultant last week. "They thought they would win or lose outright by now. They didn't think three [third-place finishes] would keep them alive." When Alexander failed to place second in New Hampshire, he lost his shot at the big-name endorsements his aides had been touting. Top Florida Republican Jeb Bush was poised to embrace him two days before that...
...CANDIDATES] Lee Teng-hui, President Lin Yang-kang, Conciliatory to China Peng Ming-min, Advocate of outright independence...
...result, black studies fell into a long decline on many campuses, which was made worse by the buffoonery and outright nonsense of some of the field's best-known advocates. At City College, part of the City University of New York, for example, former black-studies chairman Leonard Jeffries became notorious for his blunderbuss attacks on Jews and his ludicrous theory classifying blacks as "sun people" and whites as "ice people." Other so-called Afrocentric scholars maintained that the ancient civilization of Egypt invented airplanes and electricity thousands of years ago. Small wonder black studies sometimes became a laughingstock...