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26 Vickers, In Defense of Rhetoric, 294. 

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28 Cited by Vickers, "Territorial Disputes," 257. 

29 Vickers, "Territorial Disputes," 257. 

30 Vickers, In Defense of Rhetoric, 296-297. 

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