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In an analysis of Blair's "new internationalism" on its editorial page, Le Monde of Paris described it Friday as "a kind of humanitarian Wilsonism that wouldn't be limited to the right of peoples to self-determination that Woodrow Wilson wanted to impose on the defeated European empires after World War I ; it defends the rights of man, the rights of minorities, and cultural and religious freedoms."
The councilman was defeated at the polls as a result, but he was acquitted in court.
He sobbed when he paid a recent visit to Ike's boyhood home in Abilene, Kan.; when he retired from the Senate earlier this summer; when he visited his hometown of Russell, Kan., in March; when he helped plant Nixon in Whittier in 1994; when he talked on 60 Minutes in 1993 about his father visiting him in the hospital; when he attended a Senate party in 1992 for the defeated George Bush; whenever he hears "You'll Never Walk Alone" (which he played continuously during his recovery); during a Ford/Dole campaign stop in Russell (he always seems to cry in Russell) in 1976, which he included in a later campaign video.
Spain’s Arab rulers exploited this disunity to sweep north across Gaul, controlling Languedoc, Dordogne, and a large part of Provence, before being defeated at Poitiers in 732 by the army of Charles Martel.
O'Brien predicted that Sinn Fein and the IRA would continue to operate the "peace process" as "a fertile and rewarding field for further blackmail" and that the peace proposals "may well be defeated" by unionist voters in the referendum.
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