How did we get to this moment when Egypt is signing free trade agreements with Israel, when Hosni Mubarak is touring Arab nations and urging them to open relations with the Jewish state?
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If only Nixon, who made his career by bashing communists, could open relations with Red China, perhaps only Clinton, who won re-election in part by scaring the elderly about Medicare, can tackle entitlements.
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"This is a very important step in the evolution of China's relationship with the world, " said former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped open relations between Beijing and Washington in the 1970s.
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Clinton's decision to open relations was welcomed by U . S . companies as step to opening a market with a population of 72 million and annual economic growth of 8 . 8 percent.
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The city of Sidon despite its open relation to modernity remained conservative, and like most political practices in Lebanon it is still ruled by families and the social as well as political networks they establish.
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In a meeting with foreign reporters, the candidate of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front promised " open relations with all the countries of the world, independent of their economic or social system ."
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Although West Germany was a key technology supplier to Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war, especially to Saddam's chemical weapons program, Germany also kept open relations with Iran in some industrial and civilian technological sectors.
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Singapore's largest banks subscribe to the view that close supervision by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, or MAS, the country's de facto central bank, serves as a substitute for more open relations with investors, analysts said.
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Japan is ready to supply about 300, 000 tons of rice to North Korea in emergency food aid, and hopes this will help in efforts to open relations with the communist state, Japanese leaders said Thursday.
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On the eve of meeting Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, President Clinton said his policy to maintain open relations with China would not change, despite recent events that have highlighted fault lines in U . S .-Sino relations.
