In Turkey, he claimed the US had no desire to act as overlords in the Middle East, telling university students in Istanbul that the occupation of Iraq did not contradict his anti-war stance.

在土耳其，他指出美国没有愿望在中东去扮演一个霸主，他告诉伊斯坦布尔的大学生：伊拉克的占领并没有和他反战的立场冲突。

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In RECENT months the poor Palestinians have, not for the first time, found themselves used as the rope in the tug-of-war between the Middle East's "accommodationist" and "rejectionist" governments.

近几个月来，可怜的巴勒斯坦人发现，他们成了中东地区“妥协派”和“强硬派”(拒绝承认以色列)之间拔河比赛的拉绳。这也并非第一次如此了。

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Built back before the civil war, Grace Episcopal Church is a stone and stucco structure out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by forest and fields.

格雷斯国教教堂是在南北战争之前建造的，位于一个远离人烟的地方，是岩石和灰泥结构，教堂的周围环绕着森林和农田。

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The man told Lincoln that Europeans saw the war more clearly than Americans, who were in the middle of it.

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Instead,his goal will be to ease tensions between the United States and the world's Muslims tensions intensified by the Iraq war and a lack of progress in the Middle East peace process.

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No doubt, the immediate cause for the sudden rise in the price of oil and gasoline is fear of disruptions in the supply of oil due to unrest in the Middle East and the growing risk of war with Iran.

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"That Van Cliburn won the first ever Tchaikovsky Prize in Moscow in 1958, the middle of the Cold War, is testimony to his prodigious gifts, " he said.

BBC: Van Cliburn, American pianist, dies aged 78

At the same time, we were in the middle of the beginnings of the Cold War or right in the Cold War, and there were simmering tensions of many kinds going on in the society that weren't being acknowledged.

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