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...hen the authorities discovered that he was likely to be of more use with a commission and drew him, in spite of considerable resistance, out of the fi... ...side our magnifi- cent new subalterns and our equally magnificent new non- commissioned officers play the part of captains of football teams; they tal... ...gs like that. A Mexican war on that level might be as tedious as the South African war. But if the United States preferred to go into Mexican affairs ... ...is conditional upon the good behaviour of other people. “Unless the T rade Unions are more reasonable,” they will say. Or, “Unless the shipping intere... ...s repetition of incoherent discontent with authority, with direction, with union, with the European effort. It wants to do nothing. It just wants effo... ...ce that must follow this struggle. There is no question of their practical union. It is a thing that must be. But it is remarkable that while the Fren... .... “What has that to do with it?” “Or how two undistinguished civil service commissioners can hold up the scientific education of our entire adminis- t... ...y one of the Alpini silenced a machine gun by throwing stones. In the West African campaign we have employed troops armed with bows and arrows, and th...

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... attended a meeting of the men on the bank. He was secretary to the Miners Union for his colliery, and had heard a good deal of silly wrangling that l... ...ecause a lot of ignorant monkeys want a monkey of their own sort to do the Union work, and jabber to them, they want to get rid of you, and you eat yo... ...you. If you cared for your wife and children half what you care about your Union, you’d be a lot better pleased in the end. But you care about nothing... ...imes she designed dresses for him, and some- times she accepted from him a commission to decorate a room. Usually at her last sou, it gave her pleasur... ...lood. It wasn’t frightened. All the rest are craven—Europeans, Asiat- ics, Africans—everyone at his own individual quick craven and cringing: only con... ...ing itself of the moment, and seeking further, deeper interests. These old Africans! And Atlantis! Strange, strange wisdom of the Kabyles! Old, old da...

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... a common sailor, so intensely black that he must needs have been a native African of the unadul- terate blood of Ham. A symmetric figure much above t... ...be num- bered by thousands, ran up with huzzas the British colors with the union and cross wiped out; by that cancellation transmuting the flag of fou... ... Great Mutiny was a recent event. In their general bearing and conduct the commissioned officers of a warship naturally take their tone from the Comma... ...ver heeds when it crosses a frontier. Chapter 8 T he lieutenants and other commissioned gentlemen forming Captain Vere’s staff it is not necessary her... ...started on the gun decks in reference to almost anyone below the rank of a commissioned of- ficer would, during the period assigned to this narrative,...

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...38 Cambodia 40 Cameroon 41 Canada 42 Cape Verde 44 Cayman Islands 45 Central African Republic -l(i Chad 47 Chile 49 China (Taiwan entry on page 274) 5... ...ne 218 Singapore 219 Solomon Islands 220 Somalia 221 South Africa 223 Soviet Union 224 Spain 226 Page Sri Lanka 228 Sudan 230 Suriname 231 Swaziland ... ...ribbean IV. South America V. Europe VI. Middle East VII. Africa VIII. Soviet Union, East and South Asia IX. Southeast Asia X. Oceania XI. Arctic Regio... ... the Census, and the Department of State. Country abbreviations: CAR Central African Republic FRG Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) GDR Germa... ...outh Yemen) UAE United Arab Emirates UK United Kingdom US United States USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) YAR Yemen Arab Republi... ...: noun Anguillan(s); adjec- tive Anguillan Ethnic divisions: mainly of black African descent Beligion: Anglican, Methodist, and Catho- lic Language: E... ...ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOOC, ISO, ITU, IWC International Whaling Commission, IWC International Wheat Council, LAIA, NAM, OAS, PAHO, SELA, ... ...estation Special notes: almost completely sur- rounded by India; Joint River Commission on water sharing with upstream riparian India 17 Bangladesh (... ..., IBRD, ICAO, ICO, IDA, IFAD, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTERPOL, ITU, NAM, Niger River Commission, OAU, OCAM, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO Economy...

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...b countries, such as Egypt and Jordan. Everyone - Europeans and Arabs, Asians and Africans - think that "the spread of American ideas and customs ... ... vying for real estate first with Spain in Latin America and later with the Soviet Union all over the world. The Marshall Plan was a ploy to make ... ... hotels (or luxurious apartments) overlooking the communist, or Middle-Eastern, or African shantytowns. They drive utility vehicles to the shabby o... ...ntinople. The West wringed its hands but provided no material or military help. The union of the two churches - Rome and Constantinople - was celebr... ...he latest in a long chain of failed institutions. The SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) coped poorly with virulent corruption and malfeasanc... ...e into its constituent states, the world will breathe a sigh of relief. A European Union (EU)-like economic zone between the parts of the former US... ...e Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus, co-chairman of the Belarusian- Iraqi Joint Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation and a close aide to... ...he Arab world are minors. According to the Iranian news agency, IRNA, the European Commission on the Mediterranean Region estimates that the purcha... ...he noted that: "Muslim countries in the region trade less with one another than do African countries, and much less than do Asian, Latin American o...

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...xpedition -- Trouble with the sultan of Zanzibar -- Reception of da Gama by an African King -- Making good use of a soothsayer -- The King is invited ... ... The intrepidity of Drake -- Drake is recognized by the queen but is refused a commission -- Preparations to send out an expedition against the Spanis... ...outh Sea -- Cavendish is appointed to the command -- Capture and plunder of an African village -- Drake on the coast of Patagonia -- Discovery of the ... ...ast of Britain...................................... 40 Fabled Mermaids of the African coast..................................... 42 Meeting of Cartha... ...ructions to his companions, admonishing them of the necessity of maintaining a union that no divisions could separate; for it was his hope that the co... ... Mongols, for a Persian Khan who was an ally of the Tartan Emperor. Under this commission, Marco and his father and uncle sailed from Chinchew. But af... ...amination of the contents of the chest. One package after another, parchments, commissions, letters, reports, maps were drawn forth to the light, and ... ...considerable while until he had completely doubled the cape and discovered the union of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. On the 28th of October the El...

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...nd of the squadron which recently rendered such im- portant service to the Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of ... ...nited States and aims at the overthrow of the Federal Constitution and the Union, was clandestinely prepared during the Winter of 1860 and 1861, and a... ...our despatch about seizing seventy rebels to exchange for a like number of Union men was duly received. I certainly do not disapprove the proposition.... ...r for our military commanders to employ, as laborers, as many per- sons of African descent as can be used to advantage. The twelfth and thirteenth sec... ... shall employ as labor- ers within and from said States so many persons of African descent as can be advantageously used for military or naval purpose... ...asonable wages for their labor. 3. That as to both property and persons of African descent accounts shall be kept sufficiently accurate and in detail ... ... colored men at the White House. They were introduced by Rev. J. Mitchell, Commissioner of Emigration, E. M. Thomas, the chairman, remarked that they ... ...s. A. LINCOLN. NOTE OF INTRODUCTION. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Inter- nal Revenue will please see Mr. Talcott, one of the ... ...tial law, and liable to trial and punishment by courts-martial or military commissions. Second. That the writ of habeas corpus is suspended in respec...

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... the discontent of the English Barons and people. Pandolf dis charged his commission so well, that King John, in a wretched panic, consented to ackno... ...em selves his vassals, or be imprisoned until they did. In the meanwhile, Commissioners were appointed to conduct the inquiry, a Parliament was held ... ...urteen nobles, for a year. His uncle of Gloucester was at the head of this commission, and, in fact, appointed everybody composing it. Having done all... ...ed and cried after her in the streets with terrific vehemence. Such guilty unions seldom prosper. This husband and wife had lived together but a month... ...a rage and got rid of it again. At one time he wanted it to consent to the Union of England with Scotland, and quarrelled about that. At another time ... ...ndertook a war with the Dutch; principally because they interfered with an African company, established with the two objects of buying gold dust and s... ... her reign, in the month of May, one thousand seven hundred and seven, the Union between England and Scotland was effected, and the two countries were...

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...hat he thought all things else of mean importance in com- parison: and our union is one in which, following the coun- sel of a sage and seer, I must t... ...mperiale!’ 11 George Meredith ‘Does not that,’ she said, ‘include the non-commissioned officers, the privates, and the cooks, of all the regiments?’ ... ...led concord comes of it. That is our republic each one to his work; all in union! There’s the motto for us! Then you have music, harmony, the highest,... ...his ‘banana-wreath,’ he liked the fel- low for having volunteered for that African coast-service, and the news of his promotion by his admiral to the ... ... obtained the command of the Ariadne corvette, which had been some time in commission in the Mediterranean, whither he departed, without visiting Stey... ...an attack on the Tories for their want of a policy and indifference to the union of classes. ‘I would prescribe a course of it, Cecilia; yes,’ he turn... ...f doors, the other debating between two pipes. She beckoned to Palmet, and commissioned him to inform Beauchamp that she wished him to drive her down ...

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... this demand. Knowing that Natasha asked nothing for herself, and gave him commissions for others only when he himself had offered to undertake them, ... ...eople be- cause he was a great genius. And for some reason he went to kill Africans, and killed them so well and was so cunning and wise that when he ... ..., the cause of the event is neither in the one nor in the other but in the union of the two. Or in other words, the conception of a cause is inapplica... ... and philosophy. History surveys a presentation of man’s life in which the union of these two con- tradictions has already taken place. In actual life... ...udged, and according to the greater or lesser interval of time between the commission of the action and its investigation, and according to the greate... ...ear conception of man’s life. Apart from these two concepts which in their union mutually define one another as form and content, no conception of lif...

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...tracts in En- gland; the futile correspondences hinting at great wealth of commissions if one, only one, rather doubtful consignment were passed; the ... ... Major sat on the bed and whistled; for the spectacle of the senior native commissioned officer of the regiment, an “unmixed” Bhil, a Companion of the... ...rough many waves of depression. Freights might drop out of sight, Seamen’s Unions throw spanners and nuts at certificated masters, or stevedores combi... ...imental coach, yelling like school-boys; and briga- diers and colonels and commissioners, and hundreds of pretty ladies joined the chorus. But The Mal... ...kards for whom a sea-voyage was recommended; there were frowzy little West African boats, full of rats and cock- roaches, where men died anywhere but ... ...e—a bloomin’ bodysnatcher. There’s justice, I tell you, in England; and my Union’ll prosecute, too. We don’t stand no tricks with people’s insides ‘er...

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...or we lived in a quite rural suburb,) that she would execute some trifling commissions which she had received from a friend in the country, and would ... ...criptural pathos in what followed, as if it were some scene of domestic re-union, opening itself from patriarchal ages. The young officer was the elde... ..., pronounced our Kate on the spot an Alferez,* or standard- bearer, with a commission from the King of Spain and the Indies. Bonny Kate! Noble Kate! I... ...imate of all violence. Personal security being so main an object of social union, we are obliged to frown upon all modes of violence as hostile to the... ...own upon all modes of violence as hostile to the central principle of that union. We are obliged to rate it, according to the univer- sal results towa... ...nnocent voluptuousness of *‘Creole.’—At that time the infusion of negro or African blood was small. Consequently none of the negro hideous- ness was d... ... complications of descent from three original strands, European, American, African, the distinctions of social consideration founded on them bred name... ...k the con- duct of the Kalmucks; he was styled the Grand Pristaw, or Great Commissioner, and was universally known amongst the Tartar tribes by this t...

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... Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World. 2 Victory, union, faith, identity, time, The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,... .... Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death—it is form, union, plan—it is eternal life—it is Happiness. 51 The past and pres... ...ypes, the bow and arrow, the poison’d splint, the fetich, and the obi. I see African and Asiatic towns, I see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbu... ...bes and empires! you Russ in Russia! You dim descended, black, divine soul’d African, large, fine headed, nobly form’d, superbly destin’d, on equal te... ... feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you? Whoever you are! how can I but ... ...ic compact of the first day of the first year of Independence, sign’d by the Commissioners, ratified by the States, and read by Washington at the head... ...ver the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed, The Asiatic and African are hand in hand, the European and American are hand in hand, Lea... ... Sparkles hot, seed ethereal down in the dirt dropping, Myself unknowing, my commission obeying, to question it never daring, To ages and ages yet the...

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...r ago thirteen various and very jealous states worked out the problem of a Union, and became—after an enormous, exhausting wrangle—the United States o... ...to interfere to protect the lives or property of aliens in any part of the union outside the district of Columbia. The state governments still see to ... ...t it is still chary of such intervention. And these states of the American Union were at the outset so independent-spirited that they would not even a... ...n my 30 In the Fourth Year “ignorance” from the burthen of thinking about African prob- lems, I find myself obliged, like most other people, to do so... ... of the next decade. I know this is not a claim to be interested in things African, such as the pro- moter of a tropical railway or an oil speculator ... ...nd the essential thing I would like to point out to these authorities upon African questions is that not one of them even hints at any other formula w... ...r authorities can object to at least an international African “Disarmament Commission” to watch, warn, and protest. At least they must concede that. B... ...as to be kept under and stamped out in Africa as everywhere. A Disarmament Commission that has no forces available to prevent the arms trade will be j... ...now be developing in some Congo muck-heap. So here is the need for another Commission to look after the Health of Africa. That, too, should be of auth...

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...rds the second point, singularly enough Washington is the only city of the Union that has been in an enemy’s possession since the United States became... ... present population of Washington; and there are, I fear, few towns in the Union so little likely to enjoy any speedy increase. Three avenues sweep th... ...t of the House of Repre- sentatives, and the Supreme Judicial Court of the Union. It may be said that there are two centers in Washington, this being ... ...g the Minister of the Inte- rior holds his court, and, of course, also the Commission- ers of Patents. Here is, in accordance with the name of the bui... ...the feeling, at any rate the purpose. Men now talked of surrendering these Commissioners, as though it were a line of conduct which Mr. Seward might f... ...By colored men I alluded to mulattoes, and all those of mixed European and African blood. The word “colored,” in the States, seems to apply to the who... ...an or woman in whose veins there can have been presumed to be any taint of African blood. In Jamaica they are daily to be found in society. Every Engl... ... a writer on the Southern States, was at this time secretary to a sanitary commission on the army, and published an abstract of the results of the inq... ...willingly join my lot with theirs. I do not wish to have dealings with the African negro, either as a free man or as a slave, if I can avoid them, bel...

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... been reduced to the ranks for affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. “I will allow no one to call me a liar!” cried Rostov. “He told... ... money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment of the newly commissioned officer were collected. Anna Mikhaylovna, practical woman that... ...mmanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men who remained behind, and the monotonous tram... ... is a dream,” said Pierre. “Understand, my dear fellow , that outside this union all is filled with deceit and falsehood and I agree with you that not... ...se features he adored: that same face and same look and step, and the same union of majesty and mildness.... And the feel- ing of enthusiasm and love ... ... bear my cross. But if I forgive her for the sake of doing right, then let union with her have only a spiritual aim. That is what I decided, and what ... ... people because he was a great genius. And for some reason he went to kill Africans, and killed them so well and was so cunning and wise that when he ...

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...akfast. Here I cannot but remember the advice of the cook, a simple hearted African. ‘‘Now,’’ says he, ‘‘my lad, you are well cleaned out; you haven’... ...go to hell after all, would be hard indeed!’’ Our cook, a simple hearted old African, who had been through a good deal in his day, and was rather ser... ...es and was subsequently visited by numerous other adventurers as well as commissioned voyagers of the Spanish crown. It was found to be inhabited... ...ides are worth in Boston twelve and a half cents a pound, and the captain’s commission was two per cent, he deter- mined not to give them up; and se... ...ication table and the tables of weights and measures; then the states of the union, with their capitals; the counties of England, with their shire t... ...Seamen’s Friend Society, and of the other smaller societies throughout the Union, have been a true blessing to the seaman; and bid fair, in course ... ...ch any one might have seen could not be right, and which turned out to be an African Baptist meeting house. But my friend had many capital points of ... ...ple were alike, nearly all of the English race, though from all parts of the Union. The latest French bonnets were at the head of the chief pews, and ...

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...mmendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this report without dissent....

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...ndix A: Common Abbreviations 429 Appendix B:Table of Names 431 Appendix C: Commission Hearings 439 Notes 449 vii Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page ... ...n vice chair Bob Kerrey John F . Lehman Timothy J. Roemer James R.Thompson COMMISSION MEMBERS Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page xi Final FM.1pp 7... ...Senior Counsel & Team Leader Alvin S. Felzenberg Deputy for Communications COMMISSION STAFF xiii Philip Zelikow, Executive Director Christopher A. Koj... ... in Khartoum. 30 Bin Ladin agreed to help Turabi in an ongoing war against African Christian separatists in southern Sudan and also to do some road bu... ...ationships with other extremist groups from these same countries; from the African states of Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Uganda; and from the Sout... ...been boiling there even before the Central Asian departments of the Soviet Union became indepen- dent states. 39 This pattern of expansion through bui... ...in his weakest position since his early days in the war against the Soviet Union.The Sudanese government had canceled the registra- tion of the main b... ...eo- ple, none of them Americans. Interviewed later about the deaths of the Africans, Bin Ladin answered that “when it becomes apparent that it would b... ...ologies that gave us insight into the closed-off territories of the Soviet Union during the Cold War are of limited use in identifying and tracking in...