Word: pacts
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...Gaulle who first charted this course. He tried to break away from the U.S. by, for example, ordering American troops out of France and withdrawing from the military structure of NATO. But during the cold war this was not realistic. The Soviet threat loomed. Today, with the Warsaw Pact dead, France can safely make its reach for grandeur...
...Gaulle who first charted this course. He tried to break away from the U.S. by, for example, ordering American troops out of France and withdrawing from the military structure of NATO. But during the cold war this was not realistic. The Soviet threat loomed. Today, with the Warsaw Pact dead, France can safely make its reach for grandeur...
...prove it? Powell certainly demonstrated a flirtation between the two, if his sources are credible. He cited "an al-Qaeda source" as saying that in the early and mid-1990s, the terrorist group forged a nonaggression pact with the Iraqi regime. Since then, Powell said, the two sides have met at least eight times "at very senior levels." He said that according to a "foreign security service," bin Laden himself met with the director of the Iraqi intelligence service. Powell further claimed that an Iraqi defector told U.S. officials that Saddam sent agents to Afghanistan in the mid-1990s...
NORTH KOREA North Korea Scares Itself North Korea, which has been demanding that the U.S. enter into a nonaggression pact, last week added a curious "or else." Sign, or this place is toast. "If the U.S. moves to bolster aggression, the whole land of Korea will be reduced to ashes and the Koreans will not escape horrible nuclear disasters," said the peculiarly named Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, the government agency that oversees relations with South Korea. To drive home the point, North Korea announced it had reactivated its Yongbyon nuclear reactor. Pyongyang said that it would...
...pact, we’ve here agreed to meet,” Sack began, concluding that God would ultimately “stand guard on the side of right...