41.   Senior Republicans in Congress said the president should not make such a momentous change in policy by unilateral action.

42.   Shaw noted that the United States took unilateral action to eradicate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and should act against Mexico for exporting drugs.

43.   Shaw believes the United States should take unilateral action against Mexico and impose stiffer sanctions against one of our strongest economic and political allies.

44.   Should U.N. efforts fail, Daschle, D-S.D., said he would support unilateral American action.

45.   So even the parallel paths of unilateral actions, they say, are risky, and the optimists think that they eventually lead back to the negotiating table.

46.   Spokesman James Rubin said the Clinton administration considered the vote an unnecessary and untimely mistake that could lead to unilateral actions on the part of the Israelis.

47.   Such unilateral action by adjoining states could lead to a de facto partition of the country or a clash between regional interests that would be hard to contain.

48.   That is a standard Chinese diplomatic position, because Beijing has always opposed unilateral American action around the world.

49.   That is a standard Chinese diplomatic position, because Beijing has always opposed unilateral U.S. action around the world.

50.   The Clinton administration, meanwhile, claims that although it opposes unilateral U.S. action on the arms embargo, it still supports a worldwide lifting of it.