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Dismantling the weapons isn't necessarily safer, argues Bruce Blair, president of the Center for Defense Information and an expert on Moscow's nuclear policy. He says the Russian military, which presumably will continue watching over stored warheads, provides better security than the civilian agency that oversees warhead disassembly. Of course, better doesn't mean good. In a little-noticed report sent to Congress in February, the National Intelligence Council, an umbrella panel representing U.S. spy agencies, detailed the threat posed by stored Russian nuclear weapons. Poverty is rampant among Russian nuclear-weapons guards, it noted. Many are homeless...
...four girls tossing a straw-stuffed mannequin of a petimetre, a male dandy dressed in the French fashion, up and down in a blanket. But clearly it is more than that. This doll man flopping bonelessly in the air reflects Goya's sense of the power of women--the civilian version, so to speak, of the dreadful potency of the witches and the toothless hags in the "Black Paintings" and of the evil old celestinas or procuresses who accompany his beautiful hookers on balconies or the pavements of the Paseo del Prado...
...Moscow's refusal to stop supplying Iran - which Bush identified as a member of the "axis of evil" - with know-how that the U.S. fears could be used in Tehran's drive to develop weapons of mass destruction. The Russians, who have been helping Iran build a civilian reactor in the southwestern town of Bushehr, vehemently insist they have imposed strict controls on their exports that rule out sharing any sensitive technology. American intelligence officials disagree, though they refuse to disclose their evidence...
...elected on a district-by-district basis. The PA cabinet - Arafat's comprises 30 members - is appointed by the Chairman and ratified by the legislature. The ministers are meant to oversee the workings of the civil infrastructure of the PA, as well as the negotiating process. The PA's civilian infrastructure was funded by tax revenues on Palestinian workers collected by the Israeli government, and by large-scale aid from the European Union and the U.S. Financial accountability has been questionable, too - the EU warned of rampant corruption, and Israel paid a substantial portion of the tax revenues destined...
...hours of instruction in law and human rights at its army-officer academy, while soldiers dispatched to Aceh receive an extra three or four months' training to hone their military skills. One exercise gives them four seconds to decide whether they are facing an armed rebel or an innocent civilian?a distinction which, as Aceh's casualty figures suggest, has mattered little in the past. More than a thousand civilians perished in the conflict last year; this year's death toll looks set to surpass that. Combat troops have also been issued with booklets explaining the rules of engagement...