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Precisely. U.N., E.C. and all the other entries in the dictionary of collective security (c.s.c.e., oas, etc., etc.) are powerless in the face of fighting. They keep the peace only in places where hostilities have already ended, places like the Golan Heights and Cyprus, where neither party is intent, at least today, on going to war. Yet we know from history that as soon as one or the other party changes its mind, all bets are off. In May 1967, Egypt, preparing war against Israel, ordered the U.N. to get its peacekeeping troops out of Sinai. Within days they were...
...been an advantage to Terry White, the soft-spoken, studious-looking lead prosecutor, that he was black. (Alan S. Yochelson, his co-prosecutor, was white.) Though the prosecutors objected strongly when it was first suggested that the trial be moved to Simi Valley, the pair acknowledged that they were powerless to reverse the judge's decision once it had been made. But they could take comfort from the fact that juries in Ventura County had decided against the police in three of the five police-brutality cases conducted there since 1986. And besides -- the prosecution team had the videotape...
...these critics miss the point. Olmos is telling us that everything--the prisons, the gangs, the drugs--is connected. With all the powerful images that the director uses, we are powerless to disagree with...
...over a decade, America's poor and politically powerless have lived with Reagan-Bush policies which redirected social spending to a military buildup and which sought to retrain no one for a new world economy...
Jiang and Kang loosed the young Red Guards on a murderous rampage that destroyed Liu's government and Deng's party. Thousands, if not millions, were killed. Lin became Mao's heir, but soon fell under suspicion of trying to turn Mao into a powerless figurehead. To avoid his own arrest, Lin attempted a putsch that failed. Premier Zhou Enlai was left in charge, but he too ended up in Jiang's sights as she maneuvered to succeed...