Word: regionally
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Other major concerns under the new agreement are the welfare of Jewish settlers in the West Bank and the safety of travel throughout that region, Shrier said...
...physician father and I were taken by the Soviet NKVD (more recently the KGB) from our home in Budapest, Hungary, and, though innocent, accused of espionage. (After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the charges were dropped.) We were shipped to the labor camps (Gulag) of the dreaded Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia, where I spent eight years between life and death. At one point, I weighed 85 lbs., and only a miracle saved me from joining those wooden crosses. My father's body is buried there, and it is quite possible that one of those crosses marks his grave...
...many Hong Kong residents, along with some outside observers, think Patten's labors are foolish, even suicidal. China has, after all, promised to preserve Hong Kong's free-market system and basic liberties for at least 50 years, giving the region a large degree of autonomy in exchange for silence on national and foreign affairs. And the way most people see it, China has no reason to renege. It's what some commentators call the "golden goose" theory: Hong Kong's thriving economy, capitalist infrastructure, and status as a hub of world business make it such a tantalizing prize that...
...first place, Powell made no effort to take the war to its logical conclusion: the removal of President Sad-dam Hussein from power. As a result, Iraq was left under Hussein's despotic rule, and it is only a matter of time before Iraq begins to destabilize the region once again...
...much credit Powell deserves (or doesn't deserve) for the Gulf War, we must recognize that the conflict is now a part of the past. The war's resolution has not brought lasting peace and stability to Iraq, to say nothing of the Middle East as a region. The question the American people are justified in asking General Powell is (to borrow from Janet Jackson): What have you done for us lately...