The few countries who openly oppose recognition (Egypt and Italy) argue "former colonial boundaries should not be redrawn".
Mr. Blumenthal said yesterday that his office would continue to oppose recognition for the tribe, adding that the economic development plan was irrelevant to his position.
Mr. Blumenthal and officials from the three towns said they did not categorically oppose recognition for the tribes, but objected to what they called an unfair process.
In 1969, Richard Nixon arrived at the White House as a national-security hawk with a history of opposing recognition of Communist China.
H Dwyer Jr., an Anne Arundel County Republican who adamantly opposes recognition of same-sex marriages, said Mr. Gansler should be impeached.
His successor Malcolm Turnbull, has, while an Abbott government minister, given motherhood support to the well-funded Recognise movement (there is no such taxpayer support for the very significant proportion of Indigenous Australians who currently oppose recognition).
He wrote that the A.D.L. "has made the Holocaust and its denial key pieces" of the program, "while at the same time hypocritically working with Turkey to oppose recognition of the Armenian genocide of 1915-23".
Now that marriage has been reduced to a prize on a game show (front page, Feb. 17), will politicians from Hillary Rodham Clinton to George W. Bush end their pious pronouncements opposing recognition of same-sex unions because of the "sacred" nature of marriage?
Article 301 also makes it harder for Turkey's own Armenians to oppose recognition of the genocide by foreign governments, on the ground that it is better for Turks to arrive at the truth themselves.
In the only simulacrum of a platform fight this year, conservatives inserted language opposing recognition of "other living arrangements as equivalent to marriage," adding, just to drive the point home, that "legal recognition and the accompanying benefits afforded couples should be preserved for that unique and special union of one man and one woman which has historically been called marriage".
