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...Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza trip a few years later. Suspected Syrian agents assassinated Bashir Gemayel days before his presidential inauguration. His supporters retaliated by slaughtering hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Beirut. The U.S. dispatched troops to quell the unrest, while Reagan's envoys negotiated a peace accord between Israel and Amin Gemayel who had taken his brother's place...
...students had heeded the advice in my last column, they would be aware of the fact that the world is now coming down around our ears. The other day, while watching the completely non-partisan and unbiased Fox News Network, I was treated to several stories on rioting, civil unrest, and generalized chaos. The languages, skin tones, and political backgrounds of the participants all changed, but burning cars, Molotov cocktails, and swarms of plastic-shielded riot police provided enough continuity for even the most unschooled to make the connection: In more than a few countries, things are bad and people...
...picked up. So with six months to go before a presidential election, you might have thought it was easy to identify the big question that ought to be debated: how to replicate the private-sector successes throughout the economy while tackling the root causes of public disgruntlement and social unrest. Think again. The two candidates who have emerged as front-runners are both members of a new political generation. But if either has a clear vision for how to lift France out of its economic and social doldrums, they are keeping it well hidden. Nicolas Sarkozy has successfully fought...
...food imports come from China. Although the U.S. believes that tightening the financial squeeze on Pyongyang is necessary to persuade Kim to abandon his newly tested nuclear arsenal, Beijing fears that a cutoff in aid would bring about the collapse of the North's economy, touch off civil unrest and lead to an influx of millions of poor, hungry refugees on its borders. In response to Kim's test on Oct. 9, the U.N. Security Council demanded that North Korea eliminate all its nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, as well as ballistic missiles. The U.N. also authorized...
...food imports come from China. Although the U.S. believes that tightening the financial squeeze on Pyongyang is necessary to persuade Kim to abandon his newly tested nuclear arsenal, Beijing fears that a cutoff in aid would bring about the collapse of the North's economy, touch off civil unrest and lead to an influx of millions of poor, hungry refugees on its borders. In response to Kim's test on Oct. 9, the U.N. Security Council demanded that North Korea eliminate all its nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, as well as ballistic missiles. The U.N. also authorized...