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Both in Russia and in the U.S., our partnership is just developing as something in our national interest. Both Russian and American politicians should resist the temptation to find an "easy" solution and retreat into isolationism. I know a neo-isolationist mood is strong in the U.S., based on the assumption that it is easier and also more profitable for America to resolve world problems singlehandedly. We also have a similar political tendency-"ultrapatriotism." Therefore, our common task is to lead the Russian-American partnership beyond internal political struggles. This is particularly true during election campaigns both here...
...Arab countries of the U.N. and the local Arab leadership in Palestine declared that they would forcibly resist the implementation of partition; Britain declared that it would not support it, nor cooperate in carrying it out. The U.N. did not possess a military force to impose its authority and implement its resolution. The actual establishment of the Jewish state was therefore the task of the Jews in Palestine, with the aid of the Jewish people from around the world...
UNIX Systems Manager Michael G. Burner, who byall accounts was the soul of HASCS's UNIX systems,resigned last summer to take an outside positionthat he "couldn't resist," according to Osterberg...
...most part, he chose those words carefully and delivered thn em well. But when he spoke to the press late Friday to announce the arrest of Timothy McVeigh, he strayed from that discipline and turned the encounter into a self-referential exercise. This time, Clinton couldn't resist the temptation to state that federal prosecutors would seek the death penalty; that doing so might strike some listeners as gratuitous no longer seemed to worry...
...Indians, disenfranchised on their ancestral territories. He seems to see himself and his friends as migrant workers in a wonderland visited by wealthy fly-fishing enthusiasts from the coasts. For some of these radicals the Endangered Species Act disguises a plan to create concentration camps for those who resist the new world order...