Word: support
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...this week, new elections could be called within a few months. The Prime Minister can point to accomplishments in foreign policy, including a peace settlement with Nepal, and such populist but expensive programs as debt relief to farmers and job guarantees for the poor. He can also emphasize his support for "secular" values opposed to what he calls the B.J.P.'s efforts to "lay the foundation stone of a theocratic state...
Singh can probably count on the support of segments of the backward classes in the north and of the country's 96 million Muslims, who have applauded his efforts to protect the Ayodhya mosque. But he will have a harder time swaying the rest of the population, which is more concerned with rising inflation and a growing budget deficit. The B.J.P. will fight back with its platform of Hindu Rashtra, trying to convert religious fervor into votes. Where Rajiv Gandhi's Congress (I) Party might enter the equation is anyone's guess. But in order to survive, the winner must...
...theory, then, the tocsins of war might make war unnecessary, if the U.S. and its allies remain patient enough for the blockade and pressure to work. That, in turn, will require unified support from the American people for the means, as well as the ends, of Bush's policy. The President's inability to clarify how he plans to get Saddam out of Kuwait last week did nothing to halt the confusion. Perhaps he can better explain his objectives to the Americans with the most at stake in the crisis: the troops he will be meeting on a Thanksgiving...
...Cheney's support for armed intervention was unqualified, though he pointed out to Bush that the U.S. presence in the region at the outset was weak -- only a handful of ships in the gulf. Powell backed Cheney with the proviso that an insertion of American forces should be massive and swift, not gradual...
Although he once advised against intervention in Panama, Powell has earned a reputation as a man not afraid to use force to advance American interests. In the 13 months he has served as America's top soldier, Powell has steered several important military operations, including providing support for the government of the Philippines against a coup attempt, the invasion of Panama and the rescue of Americans trapped by the civil war in Liberia. After years of reluctant generals and admirals, the White House values Powell as a man who unhesitatingly carries out his mission...