Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money to persuade the Administration to soften its policy of using trade sanctions to press for better conditions for Indonesian factory workers. While relations between the two countries have warmed up, experts attribute the trend mostly to Clinton's interest in focusing on trade in this rapidly expanding region instead of human rights...
Four years ago, senior State Department diplomats hoped Clinton would breathe fresh air into U.S.-Cuban relations. Miami's fiercely anti-Castro Cuban-American community had long blocked any thaw, though the Pentagon had concluded that Havana posed no threat to the region, and Washington had made peace with almost all its cold war enemies. But half a dozen Cuban-American Democrats who raised huge sums for Clinton in 1992 convinced the new President he could win Florida in '96 if he became even more anti-Castro than Ronald Reagan or George Bush had been...
This altered facet of reality can be quite convincing for those unaware of the circumstances of the region and the bloody history it represents. But is it really conceivable that Palestinians chose to sacrifice over 70 of their own and jeopardize their hope to end years of illegal occupation and savage massacres because of an "innocuous, inconspicuous and wholly inoffensive tunnel?" Can anyone be truly convinced that Palestinian protest towards the irresponsible affairs of a more powerful state are only "hysterically paranoid comments?" Former prime minister Shimon Peres expressed his disappointment by saying that no Israeli mother he knows...
...Palestinian threat of "arms build-up" against countries who want to stop "unconventional warfare," one can only guess what this means. Forty thousand poorly-armed and poorly-trained Palestinians are hardly a threat to Israel's military potency, which is the only country in the region that bears nuclear weapons and refused to sign the U.N. nuclear non-proliferation agreement...
Continuing its tennis dominance in the East Region, Harvard crushed Virginia Tech, 6-2, in the final match...