In effect, Western attempts to create a security system which does not take this into account cannot anticipate a long-term future.

Soviet spokesmen warned the non-aligned states against succumbing to Western attempts to secure their support for American Rapid Deployment Forces.

The delegates also rejected a Western attempt to have Austria seated, if not at the conference, then in the international commission that the meeting was developing.

Previous Western attempts to get Rumania investigated have been blocked by the Soviet Union and its allies.

The swing to the fringe complicates Western attempts to cajole Mr. Milosevic into cutting off the Bosnian Serb militias.

For most of the last 40 years, Soviet leaders have angrily rejected Western attempts to give advice or criticize Soviet policies as interference in their internal affairs.

Western attempts to meet force with force led to China's declaration of war on the foreign powers the following day.

Until three years ago, Myanmar's Asian neighbors blocked Western attempts to condemn the country's human rights record.

But he made clear that he considered any move toward German reunification destabilizing and that Moscow would resist Western attempts to push the issue.

This withdrawal led to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, as it was the last Western attempt to help the Byzantine Empire.