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...Iraq is far more volatile than it was in Afghanistan. The neighbors are more contentious, but they do have a common interest--preventing chaos in Iraq. "Gaining stability in Iraq will require the support of neighboring countries, including those with which we have an adversarial relationship," says former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. "Our military victory gives us the opportunity to pressure them into working out a stable future for Iraq...
...million suit against KarstadtQuelle, Germany's biggest retailer, which now owns the property. The case threatens a 1999 accord designed to settle all Holocaust-related claims against German firms; the Wertheims argue their case isn't covered because it involves an alleged swindle after the war. Germany's U.S. ambassador sides with Karstadt, saying the case will "endanger the legal peace." But Stuart Eizenstat, the former U.S. official who brokered the €5 billion Holocaust deal, takes the family's side. A ruling could come this month. - By Peter Gumbel...
...Iraq is far more volatile than it was in Afghanistan. The neighbors are more contentious, but they do have a common interest - preventing chaos in Iraq. "Gaining stability in Iraq will require the support of neighboring countries, including those with which we have an adversarial relationship," says former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. "Our military victory gives us the opportunity to pressure them into working out a stable future for Iraq...
Last month former U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson and 20 other high-ranking former diplomats and military officers argued in a letter to Bush that "it would be simply unthinkable to ask the American POWs tortured by Iraq to bear the cost of the reconstruction of Iraq." Will Bush come to the rescue? Treasury Department general counsel David Aufhauser says, "The first priority is to apply the money to a free Iraq to make sure there are no more victims." But with the draft of a POW Protection Act already circulating on Capitol Hill, he adds, "the President is committed...
...damage to the dissidents is enormous. I don't know how they will recover now." AN UNNAMED EUROPEAN AMBASSADOR TO CUBA, on the prison sentences handed out to a slate of anti-Castro dissidents...