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However, three factors--which could surface at any time--may derail his ambitions:
It was Republicans, more than Democrats, who tried unsuccessfully to derail the CDA in Congress.
"Barak, Arafat to cooperate in probe of bombings," announced Monday's Jerusalem Post . "Barak: Car bombs will not derail process," added Ha'aretz , juxtaposing Arafat with "anti-peace Palestinians."
The LAT front page carries a long historical narrative about the U.S.'s deliberations, in the early- to mid-1960s, over whether to bomb China to derail its development of nuclear weapons.
In Jacob Weisberg's review of Charles Murray's What It Means to Be a Libertarian ("The Other L-Word"), he states, "But if government can't reroute the freight train in a better direction, it's hard to see how it can derail it."