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[Aaron E. Drews]

>From today's Internation Herald and Tribune:
http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/opindex.html

Clinton Endorses Putin

The Washington Post

Hillary, Al and Vlad - Bill Clinton seems to have lined up his ticket for
the 2000 elections. Or perhaps you missed the third endorsement, of
ex-KGBnik Vladimir Putin for president of Russia.  You may even doubt that
it happened. Why would a U.S. president intervene in a Russian election
campaign to say nice things about a candidate whose government has just
leveled an entire city and kidnapped a journalist working for a U.S.
broadcast service?



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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                  Departments of English Language and
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron       Theoretical & Applied  Linguistics

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