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He paints with care the natural variegation of Schmidt's petty anti-Semitism, its defiance on top, its embarrassment under-leaf: "To the best of his recollection, no matter how deeply or how far back he looked, Schmidt was sure he had not once in his life stood in the way of any Jew."
Although speaking immediately after Yeltsin, Clinton noted the heavy civilian casualties inflicted by the Russian army and made an analogy: If Yeltsin had been jailed (instead of elected president) after standing on a tank in defiance of the 1991 Soviet coup, Clinton argued, "I would hope that every leader of every country around this table would have stood up for you and for freedom in Russia, and not said, 'Well, that is an internal Russian affair that we cannot be part of.
2) Louis Farrakhan opened his world "friendship" tour by visiting Iraq in defiance of the U.S. government's objections.
Another Western journalist in Belgrade, José Comas of Spain's El Pa í s , contributed a special article to the Sunday-Monday edition of Le Monde of Paris describing the mounting anger and defiance of the Serb population toward NATO: Many young people, including sworn opponents of Slobodan Milosevic, were saying they would fight to the death over Kosovo.
"In defiance of the Justice Department, debut of Windows 2000 Happy Meals."