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Near or Mideast? Or Middle East? LANGUAGE
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International Herald Tribune
06-02-2003
Alistair Cooke of BBC fame called me with an assignment: ''The State Department still has a Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. The rest of the world calls that area the Middle East. Do something about this right away.''(What is it with these old guys? Cooke, at 94, has the world's liveliest nonagenarian mind. I ran into Herman Wouk the other day; at 88, he's busy finishing his latest novel. And Dan Schorr, 86, is the most lucid regul...
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U.S. ALLOWS MOSCOW BACK INTO MIDDLE EAST.(Editorial)(Column)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; The world's most important diplomats went without sleep this week to announce a non-deal aimed at non-change in Iraq and the Middle East. Don't believe them. The world has changed in the past three weeks in ways that the bland pronouncements from Geneva cannot mask. A quarter of a century ago,
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Rice nominates Welch, Cheney; They will take Middle East posts.(WORLD)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Nicholas Kralev, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has chosen a career diplomat and a daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney to be the State Department's top officials for the Middle East. David Welch, the U.S. ambassador to Egypt, was nominated as assistant secretary
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CHINA'S INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: PRESENT AND FUTURE.
Middle East Policy
; ... environment and, along with the international community, help to develop stability, peace and security in the region. (1) Xinhua News Agency, May 31, 1995. (2) People's Daily, July 5, 1991. (3) People's Daily, July 7, 1991. Dr. Zhang is associate professor and ...
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DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:ELIZABETH DUGAN
Congressional Testimony
; Congressional Testimony 05-17-2005 Statement of Elizabeth Dugan Vice President, International Republican Institute Committee on House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations May 17, 2005 Introduction Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee,
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Middle East orientation--history and culture
The Officer
; ... often Americans' only contact with Islam is through the negative actions of extremist groups seen through the filter of the news media. Central to the seminar is a presentation on Islam, which, as the basic religion of the region, is the single most important ...
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The Commissar's in Town: very little happens at State regarding the Middle East without the knowledge and approval of Cheney--not Dick, but Liz, his powerful, secretive daughter.(REPORT)(Elizabeth "Liz" Cheney appointed to Department of State)
The American Prospect
; ... is talking about when she meets a head of state. SOON AFTER HER RETURN TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT IN March 2005, Liz Cheney made news when she convened a controversial meeting with a handful of exiled Syrian activists to talk about regime change in Damascus ...
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China and the middle east: The quest for influence
Journal of Third World Studies
; Kumaraswamy, P. R. China and the Middle East: The Quest for Influence. London: Sage Publications, 1999. 228 pp. China is the fastest growing economy and military power and the most populous country (1.35 billion) in the world. In international affairs it assumed a low posture, eschewing any
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President taps Burns to be U.S. envoy in Middle East.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; PHILADELPHIA _ George Stow, who teaches history at LaSalle University, still remembers the tall, gangly kid in his course on ancient Greece and Rome about 25 years ago. He sat in the back of the room, hardly said anything, and never took a note. I wondered how is this guy going to survive, Stow
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Rethinking the Middle East
Domes
; Karsh, Efraim Domes 04-30-2004 Efraim Karsh London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2003. 208p. Paper: 17.50 ($26.25). ISBN 0-7146-8346-9. The core theme of the book is that regional factors and actors rather than great political powers have played a primary role in the restructuring of the Middle
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