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...recent days, the council managed to allay the fears of skeptical administrators, members said...
...rest of the world, Washington's broadside against Syria did little to allay anxieties about the exercise of American power. The usual chorus, France and Russia, warned that the Administration was making "dangerous" threats against Damascus. Even America's allies were taken by surprise. "It was never Britain's intention to take on Syria in this manner," says a London official. Only in the Arab world was there a sense of clarity: the bullying was all about placating Israel. Shaul Mofaz, Israel's Defense Minister, practically said as much in a newspaper interview: "Israel has a long list of issues...
CASV members said they felt the use of the SFF would help allay fears that the corroboration requirement inspired about the standard for a complaint to be investigated thoroughly...
...Russia and France. There's more than a whiff in their standoff of the politics of oil. France and Russia signed multibillion dollar contracts with Saddam's regime to develop Iraqi oil fields after sanctions, and they want those contracts respected. But even as Washington is concerned to allay Arab - and, particularly, widely-held Iraqi - suspicions that the U.S. seeks to control Iraq's oil wealth, it will also counter the Russians and French by arguing that their contracts were concluded by an illegitimate regime on the basis of political rather than business judgments, and that U.S. and British...
...Hoping to allay fears that Washington is rushing to install its favorite Iraqi exiles - most notable among them controversial Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi - U.S. officials stressed that Tuesday's discussion was simply intended as a meet-and-greet, designed to open a discussion. Chalabi, in fact, didn't even attend; he simply sent a representative. More ominous absences, though, were the two militant groups most influential among Iraq's Shiite majority, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and the Dawa Party. Thousands of their supporters turned out in the streets on nearby Nasiriyah...