Word: wars
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...World War II veteran, Hughes served in the Office of Strategic Services and the Army. He also served as chief of European research for the U.S. State Department for two years after the war...
...issues, on which Clinton can seem as inattentive as most Americans. Even for initiatives as important as the test-ban treaty, which was supposed to consolidate four decades of bipartisan arms-control efforts, Clinton failed to prepare the ground of public opinion. While the Bush Administration prefaced the Gulf War with months of explanations, NATO's bombing campaign against Serbia this year seemed to come out of nowhere. So on foreign policy, Republicans have sensed an opening to humiliate a President they could not topple, even if that means discarding the tattered remains of the bipartisan consensus on foreign affairs...
...aghast at the "parochial Senators" (the New York Times) who were willing to pay "a risky price...for political points" (the Los Angeles Times). Headlines blared comparisons to the U.S. repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and 1920, an isolationist mistake that arguably helped lead to World War...
...events. The Asian subcontinent has been a source of heightened anxiety for the U.S. since the spring of 1998, when India tested nuclear devices and Pakistan responded with its own nuclear tests. The two countries' dispute over the territory of Kashmir brought them to the brink of all-out war this year. The Administration prodded Sharif to scale back his army's adventurism in Kashmir and exacted his cooperation in cracking down on terrorist training cells in Afghanistan. But Washington had come to believe that Sharif was digging his own grave and dragging his country into it. "Things were basically...
...lover of architecture who witnessed the fire bombing of Dresden as a boy during World War II, Blobel is donating much of his $960,000 in prize money to the restoration of a church and a synagogue in that city and of a historic building in Furbine, Italy...