Word: european
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Still, Yasser Arafat, according to a close aide, was "furious" with his wife for embarrassing Clinton. "He didn't appreciate having to defend her to American and European diplomats," says the aide. The Arafats are accustomed to playing a defensive game. Suha, 36, with her bottle-blond tresses, Louis Feraud suits and French fashion magazines, was not the wife most Palestinians had imagined for their austere leader, 70, whose dedication to their liberation is symbolized in his olive drabs, stubbly beard and standard explanation (since abandoned) that he remained a bachelor because he was married to a woman called Palestine...
Behind the August incident in Millau was a deep French anger at the U.S. decision to clamp 100% tariffs on Roquefort cheese and other luxury French-food imports--Washington's WTO-approved response to a European ban on its hormone-treated beef. The broader battle cry of these rural Robin Hoods is their rejection of "la mal-bouffe"--lousy food, as symbolized by the famous American burger chain. Carted off in handcuffs, Bove spent 20 days in prison and emerged as one of France's most popular heroes. Soon he was giving countless TV and newspaper interviews and crisscrossing...
...American. "Our struggle is not against America but against uncontrolled globalization," he told TIME. "McDonald's is a symbol of industrial food production. Whether such products are American or French, the effect is the same: the destruction of traditional farming, different cultures and ways of life." He blames the European Union as well as the U.S. for "the imperialism with which they aid agricultural exports." Arguing for the right of every country to "choose what it wants to eat," Bove supports tariff barriers to protect national agricultures and calls for the creation of an independent world court to validate...
...streams of CDs," the report predicted of the '90s. That's what you call missing the dominant trend of our time. Half of all Americans came to own stocks in the '90s, an all-time high. Here's another gem: "The explosive coming of age of Japanese consumers, central European producers and Latin American governments lowered U.S. successes to second-tier status," the report reads. Well, whiff again. That scenario may develop in the next 10 years, but it doesn't come close to describing the decade in question...
...When the European Union proposed a plan to isolate and weaken Serbian strongman SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC by delivering heating oil directly to towns run by his opponents, U.S. diplomats were skeptical. They said the oil--which Serbia badly needs this winter because of the Western embargo--would either fail to reach its recipients or end up in Milosevic's hands...