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...wine." Diplomacy, the French like to say, is sovereign; commerce ranks somewhere below. And angry wine merchants alone don't explain why official France is shucking off some of its haughty principles and doing what it can to get back in the fold; the hard reality of the swift Anglo-American victory in Iraq gives it little alternative. Chirac's phone call on Tuesday to Bush - their first conversation since Feb. 7, characterized as "positive" by the Elysée and as "business-like" by the White House - was a station of the cross on that pre-Easter walk...
...psychological "shock and awe" campaign early on that didn't produce a coup or surrender or mass defections, by the constant quibbling over whether the images of Saddam were real or not, and by the very use of the term coalition to describe a force that was plainly Anglo-American. I suspect that we will long be haunted by the prediction of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak last week: that this war may produce "a hundred [Osama] bin Ladens...
...them," a senior State Department official said--and claimed that the inspectors are ignoring tips from U.S. intelligence and capitulating to Iraqi intimidation. Inspectors vehemently deny the charges. But Powell's Russian and French counterparts hailed the reports of progress and repeated their threats to block passage of the Anglo-American resolution. French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin rejected the idea that the British amendment amounted to a compromise, saying, "We would not accept a resolution that will lead...
Gigante's strategy is to provide the same goods as the best bodegas but in spacious, sparkling showrooms that rival high-end Anglo supermarkets such as Trader Joe's or Whole Foods. "The big chains gave Gigante the opportunity to come in here," says Steven Soto, head of the L.A.-based Mexican-American Grocers Association, a trade group that represents some 18,000 Latino store managers and owners. "The chains didn't understand how to market to our community. But Gigante has done a lot to open their eyes...
...history's verdict on President Bush's own campaign against Saddam, it's unlikely to be remembered as a triumph of diplomacy. The U.S. military has proclaimed its invasion force ready for battle, and the air war has, in some senses, already begun over southern Iraq where policing the Anglo-American "no-fly" zone has come to include dramatically expanded attacks on weapons and communications systems that would confront any invading force. Still diplomatic resistance led by France, Russia and Germany has proved remarkably resilient, and even traditionally reliable Turkey - from whose territory the Anglo-American "no-fly" zone patrols...