Word: ward
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...China" policy, riddled as it is with what policymakers call "strategic ambiguity." The U.S. recognizes that China and Taiwan are ultimately part of the same sovereign entity, but opposes any move to reunify them by force. While it undertakes to supply Taiwan with enough weaponry to ward off invasion by the mainland, it also strenuously avoids sending signals that might encourage the island to declare formal independence - an eventuality that would almost certainly provoke a war across the Taiwan Strait. The long-term view associated with "strategic ambiguity" is that economic and political developments currently under way will break down...
Meanwhile in Moldova, two women were arrested for selling human remains from a cancer ward. But Taiwanese carnivores breathed easy when Taipei restaurants were absolved of accusations they were serving FRIED BABIES. Internet photos of the alleged baby eating turned out to be subversive artwork by Chinese artist Zhu Yu. The Taiwanese government reassured its meat-loving masses that while the island has a law against serving babies, they can eat all the dog meat?local or Romanian?they want...
...should go ahead with the sale. Especially in light of this newest controversy, it appears that China’s hard-line military leaders are increasingly influential in areas of foreign policy. Selling Taiwan weapons for the express purpose of defense against Chinese aggression is an important step to ward off confrontation in the future. By agreeing to the sale, Bush will demonstrate to the leaders in Beijing that America is not a country that will be pushed around when our interests are at stake—and also that we are not a country that will stand idly...
...actually an American Jewish student, Tuvia Grossman, who had been visiting the Old City with friends when their cab was stopped by a Palestinian mob, and the boys were dragged out, beaten and stabbed. Grossman broke free and ran for protection to the policeman, who, wielding his baton to ward off the attackers, probably saved the boy's life...
...Saturday, Milosevic and his minions remained squirreled away as the government formulated a plan and as TV cameras watched from a distance. In that vacuum, events spilled easily into farce. Loyalists, mostly elderly socialists for whom Milosevic represents patriotic Serbian ideals, built themselves a bonfire to ward off the chill, scrawling the names of their imagined enemies--Solana (Javier, the NATO Secretary-General), Klark (Wesley Clark, the retired U.S. general) and Monika (Lewinsky, presumably)--on logs before hurling them into the blaze. The supporters "love him with their heart and soul, not with Western money like these new leaders," hissed...