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"Given his personality, one can deduce that Moscow doesn't intend to surrender its international standing for the sake of its friendship with Washington, in spite of serious economic setbacks and the fact that it is dependent on American benevolence for overcoming them," the paper said.
In Germany, the top story Monday was Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's latest setbacks in state and local elections, where his Social Democrat Party was thrown out of office Sunday in the eastern state of Thuringia.
"If we bomb, it won't be to impose a solution, as we don't have one, but because of a need for Clinton to show signs of international political life after his many setbacks, because of the CNN effect that renders intolerable humanitarian tragedies shown on television at the expense of all other ones, and in order to save what little credibility remains to NATO in the Balkans."
Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors.
Trimble pledged to continue the search for a peace process because "the prize for success is large enough for us all to put yesterday's setbacks behind us and to move forward."