Word: bulgaria
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...sure glad to find out that the safety and security of the U.S. are dependent upon the opinions of the leaders of Cameroon, Chile, Guinea, Syria, Angola and Bulgaria. JAMES T. TUCHSCHER Long Beach, Calif...
...BULGARIA One of the U.S.'s staunchest backers on Iraq has already received a nice thank-you. On a tour to tell Eastern Europe "how much we appreciate them" for their support, Commerce Secretary Donald Evans last week gave Bulgaria a special treat: he announced that the U.S. now officially considers the country a "market economy." That will lay out a welcome mat to investors...
...Security Council allies, like Britain, Spain and Bulgaria, may be more convinced of the Bush administration's political case, but they find themselves swimming against the tide of European public opinion and are showing little sign of convincing the antiwar camp. Until now, Washington may have been hoping that the specter of the U.S. rendering the UN irrelevant by acting alone outside of a UN mandate might force the likes of France and Russia to reconsider. But the European antiwar camp appears to be more fearful of the UN becoming irrelevant if it simply rubber-stamps a U.S. policy...
...countries were not doing enough to prevent terrorist groups from funneling men and money into the E.U. Jonathan Eyal, director of studies at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies in London, warns that the large numbers of Middle Eastern students in the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria "could be breeding grounds for terrorist activities." The arrest in London of a North African who had lived in Slovakia for a year did nothing to dispel these fears. Rabah Kadre and two other North African Muslims were arrested under the Terrorism Act, but their specific offense remained a mystery...
...pretty much summed up NATO's purpose as far as Europe was concerned. Those days are long gone. This week the leaders of the 19 North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries gather in Prague to embark on what's meant to be the alliance's most ambitious enlargement yet: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia - all armed with more will than power - are expected to get invitations to join. But with more terrorist attacks and a war against Iraq on the horizon, the top priority for NATO isn't enlargement, but transformation: in the post-Sept. 11 world...