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The French press was indecently jubilant in its response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rebuff to President Clinton in the Middle East negotiations.
Post's reporting suggests that Indian motivations are not crystal clear, with one senior aide to Prime Minister Vajpayee quoted as saying that the tests were scheduled a month ago and were not intended as a rebuff to international criticism, while another stated, "The news of the day is: India defies world opinion."
A rebuff to President Clinton by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdallah at the funeral of King Hussein of Jordan last week was heralded in the Saudi press Thursday as evidence that the country wasn't a pawn or a puppet of the United States.
The Court's decision to return the Lewinsky case issues of attorney-client and protective privilege back to the regular appeals court process is generally taken as a rebuff for Starr's contention that these matters pose a constitutional crisis of the first magnitude.
It described the U.S. failure to exempt its citizens and soldiers from the court's jurisdiction as "a stinging diplomatic rebuff."