41. As a result, the government has historically had much more latitude than other Western governments to search or wiretap its citizens. 42. As the number of refugees has grown, Western governments as well as those in Africa and elsewhere have become less welcoming to those in flight. 43. As things stand now, all that Western governments are doing is tricking public opinion -- and putting off the moment of bitter truth. 44. Asian governments intrude much more than Western governments into the daily affairs of individuals and families. 45. At the same time, under pressure from Western governments, Rwanda, which had been a one-party state since independence, allowed other parties to form. 46. At the time he seemed impregnable, not least because Western governments were determined not to view him as a criminal. 47. Before the commission announcement, Western governments were passing the word to Milosevic that his options were fast running out, senior Western officials said in telephone interviews. 48. Berisha, for a long time viewed by the United States and other western governments as a model of stability in an unstable region, leads the Democratic Party. 49. A fear of some Western government officials is that officials who have misused their authority will not be dismissed but merely transferred to other operations without penalty. 50. A major shift in policy by western European governments. |