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...resolutions condemning the war in Iraq. In 1989, the council passed a resolution prohibiting the city from financially supporting companies complicit in South African and Namibian racial segregation. Last month, in a move that activists said reflects the impact of the growing divestment movement on the Sudanese government, Sudanese Ambassador Khidir Haroun Ahmed posted an open letter on the government’s website calling for the end of divestment because of its “negative impact” on “the people of Sudan.” Benjamin B. Collins ’06, a member...
...Demand Re "Can He Make Peace Bloom?" [March 20]: It is crucial that U.S. ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad succeeds in persuading Iraq's sectarian leaders to revive the political process so the new government can focus on rebuilding the country. The Iraqi people are losing patience with the lack of security and stability. Right now they are without a functioning government, one that can provide public services. Khalilzad must keep the pressure on Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, the man who heads the coalition of Shi?ite parties. Al-Hakim currently seems more concerned with unifying Iraq's Shi?ites...
...Bush said he would not talk about the court case of former White House aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, citing "a serious investigation." But the President did say why the White House had released part of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq when it was under attack by former ambassador Joseph Wilson and others in the summer...
...group visas, Australia is meddling in their country's affairs and stoking separatist fervor. The men, women and children landed in a homemade outrigger canoe on the far northern Queensland coast in January. Since then, their case has led to the recalling of Indonesia's ambassador, prompted an increase in Indonesian naval patrols, and abruptly put an improving relationship, as Prime Minister John Howard delicately conceded last week, "under strain...
...Libby's bombshell is on Page 20 of a 39-page legal filing by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel in the investigation into the disclosure of the identity of then-CIA agent Valerie Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who had challenged Administration assertions about Saddam Hussein's efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Fitzgerald filed the document Wednesday night...