Straw also spoke at Chatham House, describing the need for global unity.

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Given bipartisan enthusiasm for more spending on education and the armed forces, that would seem a plausible solution, but one that will annoy Republican conservatives, involve haggling over other spending programmes, and strain the unity of the Republicans' six-seat majority in the House.

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Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, who remained under house arrest Thursday, said she is working to form an interim national unity government that would replace President Gen.

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Even some House Republicans say they have not wholeheartedly endorsed all its provisions though they have maintained almost unbroken unity.

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Let's remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity.

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