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...proposed budget of $208 million. No one knew how well a jingoistic American anthem would sound in the important overseas markets, "so we had to figure zero for Japan," says Disney studio chief Peter Schneider. He would later ask Bay to reshoot an inflammatory scene in which a civilian Japanese dentist working in Hawaii was depicted as a spy for his homeland...
...said it would block a U.S.-British initiative for "smart sanctions" against Iraq and instead introduce a resolution calling for the gradual lifting of all U.N. embargoes. The move effectively thwarted Security Council plans to introduce more targeted sanctions against Iraq this week. The measures would ease restrictions on civilian goods while retaining the military embargo against Saddam Hussein. Moscow's rejection of the new proposals followed a meeting of Russian oil and gas company executives, urging the Kremlin to block the U.N. plan. ISRAEL Testing Times During a peace mission to the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Colin...
...lessons that former NATO Commander General Wesley K. Clark presents in Waging Modern War are rather misleading [BOOK EXCERPT, June 4]. The truth is that the U.S.-led NATO operation in Kosovo was a violation of international law. Perhaps for Clark, modern war includes the inadvertent bombing of civilian targets, such as hospitals, trains and refugee convoys. I don't call this modern war; I call such actions war crimes. There are many places in the world where human rights are suppressed. The international community has selected to stay out of these crises and not to intervene...
...Pentagon is definitely guilty of a wimpy hierarchy, but they do what they're told to do by the Defense secretary and above. This is a lack of civilian leadership. Clinton was terrified of the military, because of the draft and the gays-in-the-military thing. But Bush has that necessary standing, and Cheney, Powell and Rumsfeld have the wherewithal and the knowledge to make big changes...
...think so. If there were substantial civilian casualties as a result of a government offensive or a successful attack on government forces that prompted protests and inter-communal violence, then we'd have passed the point of no return. What is worrying, though, is that the situation is being taken out of the hands of the politicians. Already, the two communities are extremely divided and deeply mistrustful. There's a real, dangerous and palpable frustration among Macedonian Slavs on the ground with the uprising, and the ongoing refusal of Albanian politicians to distance themselves entirely from the National Liberation Army...