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Yet tentative openings by both Tehran and Washington do not appear ill-fated, in stark contrast to the secret and farcical arms-for-hostages swap that took place under President Reagan in 1986.
"I can guess the secret of so much vitality.
Given the new political realities in Egypt, Tunisia, and the Palestinian territories, as well as in Lebanon, Libya, and elsewhere, the more important of these actors are no longer secret or illegal organizations.
The Sykes-Picot line, agreed in secret by the British and the French in 1916, is now in its 99th year and remains the Syria-Iraq border.
The Secret World of Female CircumcisionNAIROBI – As a child in rural Kenya, I was a secret admirer of female genital mutilation.
Let a public hearing before a judge reveal exactly who will benefit from this deal, and let parliament examine all of the agreement’s terms and secret protocols.
Russia has made no secret of its desire to weaken NATO.
Rather than trying to control millions of bourgeoisie, the state can deploy secret police to manage just a few dozen oligarchs.
This was the secret of his international stature: people expect the leader of Israel, the man from Jerusalem, to be just that type of visionary figure.
It is no secret that sovereign bonds carry significantly higher borrowing costs than concessional debt does.
In a talk to the Friends of Le Monde diplomatique in Montpellier, in May 2010, Professor Annie Lacroix-Riz endeavored to prettify the fascistic myth of the synarchism of the secret elite.
It is an open secret in Iranian political circles that Khamenei also regrets permitting volunteers of the Basij militia to attack the British embassy last November.
A third trend is growing reliance on the use of force, particularly on the part of the secret police, in political life.
Moreover, it is unclear what kind of relationship Medvedev or Rogozin would have with the FSB, or whether either man could ensure the secret police’s noninterference in the country’s post-Putin political life.
There is little secret that there were discussions concerning Iran.
Nor was it a secret that Hezbollah operates as a state within a state, with its own highly motivated private army and terrorist structures.
It is no secret that Britain’s Ministry for Defense is facing a funding crisis.
The Secret Policeman’s FallAs Hungary’s Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany found out when a recorded admission that his government was lying incited riots, openness in government doesn’t come easily in Eastern Europe’s new democracies.
Had Israel not learned of the secret plant, which was on the verge of launching operations to produce material for an atomic arsenal, the rebels effectively would have been in possession of a radiological weapon.
It should not keep its plans secret, as it has so far done, and it certainly should not engage in brinkmanship, such as that exemplified by May’s battle cry that “no deal is better than a bad deal.”
It is no secret that Europe is in the midst of an internal economic crisis – a result of the euro saddling southern eurozone countries with high inflation prior to the 2008 financial crash, which severely reduced their competitiveness within the euro system.
This secret truce was maintained even after Mexico’s first open democratic presidential election in 2000, when the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party was ousted from power.
And, while its western neighbor Iraq is a fellow Shia-majority state, Iraq’s Arab Shia make no secret of their distaste for the Persians and their claim to Shia prominence.
The prisoners independently described “a secret prison” inside the prison, called “the black hole.”
Egypt also has a powerful secret weapon that is yet to be fully deployed – a generation of young people who, after years of alienation and repression, believe that they can (and should) influence the country’s destiny.
(Indeed, Karzai has reportedly already met with Taliban representatives for secret talks aimed at restarting the stalled peace initiative.)
Why this discussion had to take place now, in the middle of the Irish crisis, remains Chancellor Angela Merkel’s secret.
Pinochet never saw the inside of a cell, but many of his henchmen – including the head of his secret police – served long sentences.
Indeed, most of North Korea’s R&D, not least its enrichment of fissile materials, occurs in secret facilities inaccessible to outside inspectors.
In 1994, when the US and North Korea last agreed to a freeze on North Korea’s plutonium production, Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, quickly broke the deal, embarking on a secret uranium program.
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