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...engaged in Afghanistan against forces that would ultimately threaten Russia's southern flank. Putin even allows NATO to use Russian territory for logistics, and approved its use of air bases in Central Asian countries. Still, President Bush failed to convince his Russian counterpart and friend that the latter's stringent anti-NATO rhetoric is counterproductive...
...subsequently refused the treatment and medicine he and the other doctors had been recommending, Béal recalls Sébire explaining to him that "drugs are chemicals, chemicals are poison, and I won't make matters worse by poisoning myself." In the end, however, Sébire's stringent views were entirely reversed upon her deciding...
...improve the tense relationship between U.S. museums and foreign governments, both Ebbinghaus and Cuno recommend a twofold strategy: performing stringent background checks on objects while finding new ways for museums to permanently acquire artifacts...
...bonds of the black community. According to Kennedy, Black America is “wildly heterogeneous” and applying a monochromatic standard of blackness to African Americans is harmful to the existence of varying viewpoints and ideologies expressed by members of the community. Ultimately, Kennedy argues, such a stringent test strains the ties that hold African Americans together for collective action. Kennedy espouses a pluralistic vision that allows for the diverse ideological differences that can be found within the boundaries of Black America. According to him, these differences could provide solutions to the problems that plague African Americans. Indeed...
...choice of a successor for Carrington reflected her own weakened position within the Conservative Party as a result of the Falklands invasion. He was Francis Pym, 60, the man considered to be Thatcher's most serious rival for the party's leadership and a critic, however cautious, of her stringent economic policies. Wealthy, Eton- and Cambridge-educated and a descendant of the famed Puritan leader of the House of Commons during the 17th century English civil war, Pym had hoped for the Foreign Secretary post after the Conservative election victory of May 1979. Instead he became Defense Secretary. In January...