Word: western
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...government counters that whatever Rabin offered was hypothetical, and the only way to strike a deal is to resume the bargaining. Syria may eventually agree. "Assad has made a strategic decision for peace," says Uri Savir, who headed Israel's delegation during the previous talks with Syria. Says a Western diplomat: "If Assad gets his basic demands, he will sign a treaty. You couldn't say that with confidence four years...
Russian commanders have, in fact, learned nothing at all since the first Chechnya war. Officers and NCOs who took part in battles last month against Chechen rebels in western Dagestan described their own commanders as corrupt, ill-organized and incompetent. Sources close to the Spetsnaz, the best-trained and most combat-experienced soldiers, say they lost officers to misdirected Russian "precision bombings" in Dagestan. They also speak of corrupt commanders who allowed Chechen leader Basayev to buy his way out of Dagestan after a failed offensive, and of helicopter-gunship crews who were bribed by the Chechens to hit empty...
MacFarquhar praised Moravcsik's research. "His most recent book was a path-breaking study...He is a first-rate and prolific scholar on Western Europe and acknowledged to be the leader in his field both in the US and Western Europe...
...Europe. "Some in Asia charge that because U.S. companies are being frozen out of American markets, they're turning to the Third World to keep the business going," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. But China's smoking problem may have a lot less to do with the allure of Western cigarette advertising than with prevailing social conditions. "If you're an ordinary worker in a Chinese industrial city, there are so many other more immediate threats to your health and well-being that smoking may seem like a relatively minor danger," says Dowell. It may be some time, though, before...
...also contracted with the Beverly-based WBOQ-FM, 104.9, to air the opera broadcasts and is currently looking for other carriers in Western Massachusetts and on the Cape because of WHRB's limited range...