Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 1997 and Supplemental for 1996: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1996 |
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... Middle East . These include maintaining the free flow of Persian Gulf oil ; preventing radical Mideastern states from acquiring weapons of mass destruction ; preventing Mideast - originated international terrorism ; containing the ...
... Middle East . These include maintaining the free flow of Persian Gulf oil ; preventing radical Mideastern states from acquiring weapons of mass destruction ; preventing Mideast - originated international terrorism ; containing the ...
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... Middle East . These include maintaining the free flow of Persian Gulf oil ; preventing radical Mideastern states from acquiring weapons of mass destruction ; preventing Mideast - originated international terrorism ; containing the ...
... Middle East . These include maintaining the free flow of Persian Gulf oil ; preventing radical Mideastern states from acquiring weapons of mass destruction ; preventing Mideast - originated international terrorism ; containing the ...
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... Middle East . I would re- spond that we are at an historic moment that few of us can truly appreciate . The Middle East is changing rapidly ; the United States has an opportunity to steer the course of these changes in a way that will ...
... Middle East . I would re- spond that we are at an historic moment that few of us can truly appreciate . The Middle East is changing rapidly ; the United States has an opportunity to steer the course of these changes in a way that will ...
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... Middle East in particular is one of the world's most dangerous areas -- and yet also one of the most important for U.S. interests . The Middle East is high on America's foreign policy agenda . Among " five key areas that offer ...
... Middle East in particular is one of the world's most dangerous areas -- and yet also one of the most important for U.S. interests . The Middle East is high on America's foreign policy agenda . Among " five key areas that offer ...
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... Middle East : " We should tackle the immediate problems -- such as Persian Gulf security and the Arab- Israeli conflict-- that threaten to trigger further bloodshed . Unless we succeed in meeting these challenges , the cradle of ...
... Middle East : " We should tackle the immediate problems -- such as Persian Gulf security and the Arab- Israeli conflict-- that threaten to trigger further bloodshed . Unless we succeed in meeting these challenges , the cradle of ...
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Page 89 - ... The parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to settle any international disputes in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security and justice are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.
Page 90 - Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights. Protection of minority rights can also be aided by allowing for appeal to outside institutions such as the United Nations, the European Commission on Human Rights and the International Court of Justice at the Hague.
Page 89 - ... to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors, and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest...
Page 113 - Earlier at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo in September 1994...
Page 269 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 265 - The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand : and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
Page 81 - The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world. To our principles guiding us in this quest we must stand fast. In so doing we can honor the hopes of all men for a world in which peace will truly and justly reign.
Page 81 - There can be no peace without law. And there can be no law if we were to invoke one code of international conduct for those who oppose us and another for our friends.
Page 228 - Nevertheless, the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.
Page 81 - unless Moscow agreed " NY Times. May 15. 1979. at Al. col 3. This position was voiced over a period of months by Turkish officials, the opposition party and the military Chief of Staff. Gen Kenan Evren (6) In May. 1989. Turkey rejected an American request to inspect an advanced MIG-29 Soviet fighter plane, flown by a Soviet defector to Turkey NY Tiroes.