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Sitting at the same highly polished teakwood table in the Foreign Ministry in Pyongyang, talking to the same officials the Kelly team had seen, former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Donald Gregg and I heard the North's considered response to Washington's worries. They would "clear the concerns" of the U.S.--get rid of the secret program--if Washington recognized their sovereignty and, especially, provided credible assurances of nonaggression...
...born son of a French mother and a half-German, half-Russian father (who had an Ethiopian grandmother to boot), his cosmopolitan origins and a lifetime of hobnobbing with the high and mighty have turned him into a consummate, and well-connected, pundit. His work as a U.N. goodwill ambassador - he's still going strong after 35 years on the job - keeps him in the international mix. Fluent in English, French and German, but not Russian - "I speak very bad Russian, but without an accent, and the Russians consider that a provocation" - he maintains a close relationship with the last...
...military "adventure." He has since softened his position, but - aware of overwhelming German opposition to a war - has been cautious about saying so. When the debate comes to the Security Council, however, Schröder will have no place to hide. To complicate matters, Germany's new ambassador to the U.N., Gunter Pleuger, will take over as chairman of the council in February. Schröder tried to give himself some wiggle room in his New Year's address, hinting that a war may be necessary to topple Saddam Hussein. "We Germans know from our own experience that dictators sometimes...
...country director for Russia, who was informed on the day after Christmas that Russia would have no further use for his services or those of his volunteers and 24 staffers (most of them Russian). Hay must now help the Corps volunteers scattered throughout Russia plan speedy departures. The U.S. ambassador, Alexander Vershbow, is furious at the insinuations. Patrushev's comments, he says, "are outrageous, untrue and harmful to the work that Peace Corps volunteers are carrying on world-wide. We categorically reject allegations that Peace Corps volunteers have been engaged in spying." But in the midst of this verbal blizzard...
...suspicious (for historical and very understandable reasons) of the use of force as a way of settling political disputes and resentful--as a senior British official puts it--of the "power, reach, economic and cultural success of the U.S." Europeans, says Francois Bujon de l'Estang, a former French ambassador to the U.S., "are having to get used to the idea that they're no longer the center of the world." But one common European criticism of the Bush Administration has weight. That is the claim that the U.S has not thought through how to implement its Wilsonian agenda...