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...force, for example, now enjoys base facilities in Yemen and Somalia, which it has supplied heavily with military hardware. American base rights in Spain and Thailand have been a quid pro quo for weapons. Using arms sales to gain bases, however, sometimes makes the exporting country a hostage of the recipient. Ankara now threatens to expel the U.S. from some of its vital bases in Turkey because Congress stopped deliveries of military...
Israeli secularists, who far outnumber religious adherents, often attack this quid pro quo. "Religious law infringes on my basic freedoms," says a Hebrew University student. "Just because the religious community doesn't want to ride buses on the Sabbath doesn't give them the right to prohibit others from riding...
...happy to accept Matthews's assessment of Page. My article simply said that he receives liquor at Christmas from people for whom he has obtained coveted tickets. I was not trying to imply that there was a quid pro quo at work; if anything, the passage implied the opposite, that Page does not solicit or expect the gifts, because, as the article noted, he does not drink. --Scott Kaufer
...explicit: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy ... trial." Defense lawyers and hard-nosed cops alike support the principle, in theory at least. The innocent get freed faster, the guilty get put away faster, and the community has a better sense of the quid pro quo of punishment for crime...
...Gaylord, Mich., Catholics visiting the Pontiff at his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo last week were four Ottawa Indians outfitted in full tribal regalia. The four presented Paul with an Ottawa war bonnet, which he obligingly put on. Then one of the Indians, Alvina Anderson, proposed a quid pro quo. "I asked the Pope to pray for peace be tween the U.S. and the Indians," she said later. "I told him that the U.S. had not honored a lot of our treaties." Paul's reply went unrecorded...