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A front-page report in the International Herald Tribune of Paris said U.S. officials are confident that Solana "would help guarantee that EU military cooperation fits with NATO and does not challenge the Western alliance's primacy in European security."
The State Department retained primacy until the 1960s, when the Kennedy and Johnson administrations turned instead to Robert McNamara's Defense Department, where a mini-state department was created to analyze foreign policy issues.
Ellison believed firmly in the artist's detachment from politics and political engagement, in the primacy of aesthetics over the political and sociological dimensions of literature.
It reminded us of the FBI's pre-9/11 emphasis on the primacy of its field offices.
But even as a "multiracial" category blurs the color line, it can reaffirm the primacy of whiteness.