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In 1966, only two years after the publication of the book, General de Gaulle, then president of France, established a High Committee for the Defence and the Expansion of the French Language.
Our data suggests that gamma-tocopherol could play a significant role in modulating intracellular antioxidant defence mechanisms.
Thursday, the Telegraph carried a front-page report by its resident conservative conspiracy theorist, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, that former White House Director of Special Projects and Special Needs Robyn Dickey had been "transferred abruptly to a job at the Defence Department after she was named as a long-standing lover of President Clinton in Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit."
The paper clearly laid out its Wag the Dog theory: "After a weekend of sexual revelations and lies, which have taken a severe toll on his reputation, the President with the help of the Defence Secretary, William Cohen, has found a means of rallying the country behind the presidency and the Stars and Stripes."
In Yediot Aharanot , Danny Rothchild, a former intelligence officer of the Israeli Defence Forces, predicted that the transfer of power in Jordan will take place "without many shocks" but that there will be hard times ahead for the Jordanian people.