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1、2013届高考英语听力特训3（word文本）：33Britain apparently failed today in its efforts to persuade its European allies to take joint action against Syria for its alleged role in sponsoring international terrorism. But the US government insisted it was continuing to assess the situation and considering further acti
2、ons. NPRs Elizabeth Colton reports. Here in Washington, State Department spokesman Charles Redman emphasized that the American action of withdrawing its Ambassador from Damascus represented a strong signal and was not at all a routine or normal procedure as the Syrian Foreign Minister described it y
3、esterday. To define what we did, withdrawing ones ambassador is, in diplomatic terms, an extremely serious measure, a sign of great displeasure with a countrys policies. But Redman skirted the issue of why the US had not taken stronger action against Syria now as the American military did against Li
4、bya last April. Weve often said in the past that were not on some sort of automatic pilot in the case of any of these questions. And finally, that were in the process of consulting with the British and our allies on what other steps may now be appropriate. The State Department has sent the head of i
5、ts anti-terrorism office, Ambassador Paul Bremmer, to London to coordinate any further Western action against Syria. Im Elizabeth Colton in Washington. In Nicaragua today, former US Attorney General Griffin Bell proposed a prisoner swap to free American Eugene Hasenfus. Hasenfua is on trial in a peo
6、ples tribunal for allegedly shipping supplies to contra rebel forces. Bell suggested trading Hasenfus for nineteen Nicaraguans held in US jails. All but one of the Nicaraguans is imprisoned on drug charges. Bell says he isnt sure the US or Nicaragua will accept the proposed deal. A former air force
7、enlisted man has been arrested for allegedly trying to sell information to the Soviets. The Justice Department said today that Allen John Davies was arrested in San Francisco while trying to deliver the plans of an air force reconnaissance project to men he thought were Soviets. Davies faces up to l
8、ife in jail if convicted. Today in Luxembourg, Britain pushed for sanctions against Syria. At a meeting of the European community, British Foreign Minister Sir Jeffrey Howe called for a collective response against Syria which Britain accuses of involvement in an attempted airline bombing in London.
9、From Luxembourg, the BBCs Clifford Smith reports. Sir Jeffrey Howe is not asking his European partners to do exactly as Britain did, for instance, to break off diplomatic relations with Syria. He is asking, however, for what he calls a clear collective response, something that will tell Syria that i
10、ts behavior is unacceptable to all twelve. On this point, he seems to have found reluctance among at least some ministers. But he also seems to have been taking a very firm line. At one moment, he pointedly reminded the meeting that only last month he had called an emergency meeting of the twelve Mi
11、nisters of the Interior at French request and that that meeting had not only declared solidarity with France against the terrorist bomb attacks in Paris, but had produced what he called useful and practical results. Sir Jeffreys implication was clear. France, he thinks, should not now be hanging bac
12、k, but should help in getting similar results from this meeting in Luxembourg. The certain ideas which are said to be at the forefront of discussion here among the twelve have not yet been officially revealed. But there are indications they may include the banning or restriction of flights to or fro
13、m Damascus and the reduction of embassy staffs. Against this, some Ministers are clearly putting the point that it would not be good for the prospects of Middle East peace to isolate Syria too much. Since everyone here agrees that Syria has a necessary role in that process. The BBCs Clifford Smith r
14、eporting from Luxembourg. News analyst Daniel Shore says that Britains evidence linking Syria to the attempted bombing places the Reagan Administration in an uncomfortable situation. The Reagan Administration has been aware for months of the solid evidence that Syrian air force and intelligence orga
15、nized Nezar Hindawis attempt to blow up an El Al airliner with two hundred Americans among its three hundred and seventy-five passengers, apparently in revenge for Israels forcing down of a Syrian plane in a search for terrorists. The case against Syria also includes the bombing of an Arab-German Fr
16、iendship Club in Berlin and probable complicity in the Beirut bombing that killed two hundred and forty-one American marines. That case is at least as strong as the evidence of Colonel Quddafis involvement in the Berlin Discotheque bombing last April, which led President Reagan to order a retaliatory bombing raid on Libya. The President, having said he would take similar action against Syria if a similar smoking gun were produced, faces the dilemma n
