3.04.01 international diplomacy

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Olmert's blather would have made excellent comedy material -- not to mention President Bush's weird facial expressions as he sought to evade the barrage of questions from reporters.

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The Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign was her brainchild.

Summary:While the US debates whether a civil war is raging in Iraq, thousands of Iraqis face the possibility of death every day all over the country.

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Western Sahara is a sparsely populated territory about the size of Colorado, located on the Atlantic coast in northwestern Africa just south of Morocco. Traditionally inhabited by nomadic Arab tribes, collectively known as Sahrawis and famous for their long history of resistance to outside domination, the territory was occupied by Spain from the late 1800s through the mid-1970s, well over a decade after most African countries had achieved their freedom from European colonialism.

The nationalist Polisario Front launched an armed independence struggle against Spain in 1973, and Madrid eventually promised the people of what was then still known as the Spanish Sahara a referendum on the fate of the territory by the end of 1975.

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Archbishop Odama of Gulu has offered himself to the International Criminal Court in place of the indicted Lords Resistance Army leaders -- if they agree to end the war.

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The government is weak, unpopular, and faction-ridden, and the power vacuum in southern Somalia is rapidly being filled by the same faction leaders and warlords the Courts overthrew less than a year ago.

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Are conditions ripe for a grand bargain in the Middle East?

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Polarization and confrontation, with occasional violence, have become the prevailing political norm in the Middle East, as the docile ideological center of years past temporarily leaves the stage.

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The stakes of the US-Korean crisis are far greater than is popularly understood.