The party urged closer Anglo-Irish cooperation and built alliances with European partners and influential Irish Americans, including Senators Edward Kennedy and Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Governor Hugh Carey of New York.
Warren Hoge (NYT) FRANCE: ALGERIAN'S PLEA -- On the first day of a four-day visit, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria urged closer ties between the two nations.
Also, he urged closer scrutiny to determine when genetic tests are ready for wide use, given that commercial pressures may persuade patients and doctors to use tests before their medical value is established.
At Franco-German crisis talks in Paris on Tuesday, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy urged closer economic co-ordination and called for a Europe-wide tax on financial transactions to prevent the disintegration of the single currency.
The chief executive of the company pioneering shale gas "fracking" in the UK is to face his home county critics, as leading scientists urged closer monitoring of new drilling.
Last month Mr. O'Keefe shifted Gen. Roy D. Bridges from his job as director of the Kennedy Space Center to run NASA's Langley Research Center, where engineers who were consulted during the flight had urged closer attention to the potential for grievous damage to Columbia from the foam strike.
Mrs. Clinton is by far the more conventionally experienced and credentialed candidate, and in some respects is more hawkish: She has called for the creation of a no-fly zone in Syria, as well as more airstrikes there, and has urged closer collaboration with Silicon Valley to expand the United States' surveillance capabilities, alarming some civil liberties advocates.
A Chinese government analysis released in January urged closer military relations between the nations, and Mr. Sedney said on Saturday that both nations' navies had cooperated in recent months to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Somalia.
Some of Africa's leaders have urged closer co-operation within the continent on energy and infrastructure projects to help its growth prospects.
The director of UK spy agency, GCHQ, has urged closer co-operation between governments and the tech sector to end what he dubbed the "abuse of encryption", describing it as a "moral problem" which democratic societies must grapple with in order to strike a balance between security and privacy.
