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Marine court decision provoked an outburst of anti-American comment in the Italian press that is without parallel in recent years.
Le Monde said the German celebrations were conducted "with a certain modesty, as if to allay the fears that a united Germany, not always wrongly, has traditionally provoked in its neighbors."
This spot has provoked calls for Congress to enact a second Prohibition--not on drinking alcohol, this time, but on marketing it in this way.
Mapplethorpe's photographs seem to Fiss to qualify under these guidelines, since, he says, "in the late 1980s the AIDS crisis confronted America in the starkest fashion and provoked urgent questions regarding the scope and direction of publicly funded medical research.
The most recent was the revelation, in 1994, in the magazine Paris Match that the late President François Mitterrand had had a daughter by his mistress--a report that had provoked many protests about the intrusion into his privacy.