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...planners shuttled from the State Department and the White House to join agency analysts in poring over piles of satellite photos and phone intercepts, sifting through tapes from defectors and interrogations of detainees. Bush had just pledged in his State of the Union speech that Secretary of State Colin Powell would take fresh, compelling evidence to the U.N. in seven days' time to bolster the case for war. These officials were struggling to choose exactly what to include. The selection had to make for a punchy yet credible show-and-tell for Powell--and all without compromising sources or revealing...
...Newell, who runs the respected Big Man Camp for college and professional giants in Honolulu. "He's very, very sound fundamentally." Still, no one, not even Yao, can explain why he suddenly started playing like an All-Star. "I don't know what happened," says Yao through his interpreter, Colin Pine. "It's a testament to my coaches and teammates. They've helped me very much...
...Congress that North Korea could be capable of supplying nuclear weapons to terrorists within months, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage offered assurances that "we're going to have direct talks with the North Koreans; there's no question about it." Days later, however, Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared to contradict him, saying "no military option's been taken off the table, although we have no intention of attacking North Korea as a nation." Korea analyst Leon Sigal, whose book Disarming Strangers chronicles the first nuclear crisis, says U.S. intransigence and North Korea's belligerence equal "a very dangerous...
...excited. Spokesman Ari Fleischer said the White House had "heard much talk from North Korea before." However, Fleischer noted that "the United States is prepared with robust plans for any contingencies." Washington has put 24 bombers on alert for deployment to the region. Yet Secretary of State Colin Powell told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee "we have no intention of attacking North Korea." The U.S. continued to pursue a multilateral approach to the crisis, working with allies South Korea and Japan, as well as Russia and China. But Pyongyang, which pulled out of a nuclear non-proliferation treaty in January...
...While Secretary of State Colin Powell's evidence against Iraq was given a respectful hearing at the Security Council on Wednesday, his presentation did not change the positions of France, Russia, Germany and other key skeptics of the need for military action. But things could change significantly when Dr. Blix reports back to the Council on Valentine's Day - Powell, after all, speaks as a representative of Saddam Hussein's most avowed and implacable enemy; Blix is the Council's own objective investigator. If Powell sets out a case, based in considerable part on unnamed sources, that Iraq is refusing...