Be abejo, todėl ir naudoja /whose/.  But what about „lėkianti mašina, 
kurios keleiviai ir vairuotojas buvo visi girti“ ...

= "the speeding car, /whose/ driver and passenger were all drunk“ ... ?  
(Žinau, žinau, kad turėtų būti "the driver and passenger were all 
drunk", bet dabar pradėsiu stebėti, ar žmonės vartoja /whose/ šituose 
atvejuose.)

Romas Z. wrote:
> Pagal tarptautinę teisę vienas iš valstybės objektyvių požymių yra 
> gyventojai :)
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> "GK" <kadagys@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:gv34vm$cts$1@trimpas.omnitel.net...
>> The Miracles of Realism
>> By ROGER COHEN
>> Vietnam teaches several lessons, the first of which is that the 
>> United States can have normal relations with countries whose 
>> political systems and ideologies it rejects.
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>> I'm not interested in this NY Times article, only in the grammar of 
>> its openeing sentence: " ... countries whose political systems and 
>> ideologies it rejects"
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>> " ... countries whose ... " ?  Interesting.  I thought 'who' (whom, 
>> whose) was reserved for reference to nouns that denote people or 
>> other animate objects. 
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