Word: waverers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...nice to talk about standing up for freedom, but Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are not exactly democracies, and if their principal export were oranges, a mid-level State Department official would have issued a statement and we would have closed Washington down for August. There is nothing to waver about here." What Saddam offers the President, says another White House aide, is "a case where he knows what's right, he knows what the American people think, and he knows what he should do. Most important, he knows these are all one and the same thing...
...opposed to German unification but unexpectedly backed East German Prime Minister Hans Modrow's proposal earlier this month for a united, neutral country. Gorbachev then agreed with visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl that unification is something for the Germans to work out among themselves, and he seemed to waver even on the principle of neutrality. Two weeks ago, Kohl proposed a monetary union with East Germany. By last week that suggestion had already become official policy on both sides of what used to be the Berlin Wall...