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After the election, Holbrooke wrote a memo to Warren Christopher and Anthony Lake advocating the strategy known as "lift and strike"--lifting the arms embargo that prevented the Muslims from defending themselves, and bombing the Bosnian Serbs.
Du Bois wrote, "Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground."
For the possibility of lifting sanctions, see Colin Powell interview (Jan.
The Enquirer also says Ramsey tried to convince authorities that an intruder had entered the house by lifting a grate outside the basement.
Cevik said Turkey should now press for a lifting of sanctions against Iraq, and called on Baghdad "to utilize our unique position as a friend and neighbor of Iraq to be able to integrate back into the international community."