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...accident that the first four questions McCain faced in last week's Republican debate were not about Medicare or Chechnya or Microsoft; they were all about him. Just how bad is your temper, Senator, and why do some of the people who know you best dislike you most? Why are people whispering that your years in prison left you slightly unhinged...
...soaking up the applause at soldiers' homes and Main Street parades. But McCain didn't want to talk much about domestic hot buttons like health care and Social Security, or about his swelling poll numbers, or even about campaign-finance reform. "I want to talk for a moment about Chechnya," he said to a few reporters on his campaign bus, before launching into a critique of Russia's "brutal to the extreme" war and announcing that if he were President, he'd move to cut off the International Monetary Fund's loans to Moscow...
Tough-minded and spontaneous, the statement turned out to be a small triumph for McCain. George W. Bush unveiled a near identical position on Chechnya more than a week later--in a precooked foreign-policy address--but by then it sounded stale. "McCain was the first senior American politician to say that what the Russians are doing is genocide," says former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. "It was a gutsy call, and he called it just right." It was more than good timing. While campaign finance is his calling card, foreign affairs is McCain's intellectual passion. Flashing his foreign...
...sense of flashback to the bad old days of the Cold War was underscored by President Boris Yeltsin's warning Thursday that President Clinton, in criticizing Russia's conduct in Chechnya, "must have forgotten for a moment what Russia is - it has a full arsenal of nuclear weapons." And in the ultimate d?j? vu, the Russian leader's remarks came during a visit to Beijing in order to drum up support in the face of Western pressure over Chechnya. Post-communist Russia's decline and NATO's bombing campaign over Kosovo earlier this year have cemented a fiercely anti-Western...
...intelligence that Bin Laden operatives have been in Chechnya training Muslim fighters in guerrilla tactics. And the mixture of chemicals that Russian investigators found in some of the blasts matches the brew mixed by bombers-in-training at his camp in Afghanistan. "There are some strings that connect here," a U.S. intelligence official tells TIME. "Some of the bombs in Russia were consistent with what Bin Laden bombers...