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...People are going to be very suspicious when one talks to them about intelligence." Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on the repercussions of the U.S. failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...
...revival meeting with the full choir singing in his defense as the President performed the rites of political redemption. For the skeptics, he named a commission to explore the intelligence failures and included his eternal scold Senator John McCain to sanctify it. He bowed before U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the Oval Office in an admission that the deadlock in Iraq could not be broken without his help. For the believers...
Even U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan can't resist the lure of a certain statuesque Oscar winner. For years the U.N. has denied filmmakers access to the inside of its New York City headquarters--Alfred Hitchcock couldn't get in to shoot his 1959 thriller North by Northwest. But director Sydney Pollack won approval last week to film The Interpreter, in which NICOLE KIDMAN plays a translator who overhears an assassination plot. Diplomats are now inquiring whether they'll get to meet Kidman and how they can become extras. Perhaps peace in the Middle East can be brokered...
...Annan's Deadline CYPRUS Reviving hopes of an end to the island's 30-year division, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan invited Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders to New York City for new talks this week. Officials from both sides tentatively agreed to attend. Annan wants each side to hold a referendum on his reunification plan in April, allowing a unified Cyprus to join...
...ayatollah's objections. Sistani's demand, backed by tens of thousands of demonstrators in Iraq's major cities in recent weeks, has prompted the U.S. to seek UN intervention. Sistani has indicated that he'll take no for an answer on elections only if it comes from Kofi Annan, who has agreed to send a team to assess the viability of an early vote...