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...meeting at the White House, President Bush asked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to come up with a plan for Iraqi self-rule that the country's squabbling factions could accept. A U.N. team arrived in Iraq last week to evaluate the coalition's plans for transition and assess the feasibility of holding broad-based elections before the June 30 deadline. The elections have been demanded by Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, but are resisted by U.S. officials, who say a general vote cannot be held safely. The intrigue deepened last Thursday when Sistani...
...security is concerned. That's why we've invested massive time, people and resources into making this event secure. DO YOU EXPECT TO SEE A SETTLEMENT ON CYPRUS SOON? I think there is a serious possibility because of Cyprus entering the E.U. [in May] and Turkey being assessed for possible membership in December. This could provide greater motivation for rapprochement and a solution under U.N. auspices. WHEN WOULD YOU START ARMS-REDUCTION TALKS WITH TURKEY? Immediately following the March 7 elections. I think there is a great opportunity to create a peace dividend for both countries. If we have...
Brainard said Martinez and HFA staff had already begun meeting to assess what changes, if any, need to be made to the archive...
Like other games that lend themselves to statistical reduction, cricket can be brutally efficient in judging its players across the years. There?s usually no need to look beyond the weight of runs scored and wickets taken to assess a player?s proper place in the cricketing pantheon. But averages speak of substance rather than style. A talented showman and a dour plodder can be mediocrities on the numbers grid, although the first might have soared as often as he flopped, while the second never got off the ground. David Hookes, who died on Jan. 19, was not a cricket...
...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...