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...Iraqi Governing Council? Yes it would, according to Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair. He said today that the Iraqi authority would exercise political control over major operations of Coalition forces, and added that his answer also described the position of the U.S. But within hours, Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared to dismiss Blair?s answer, stressing that U.S. forces would answer to U.S. commanders, and that although they would consult with the Iraqi government, any time the two sides were in conflict the U.S. forces would do whatever they deemed necessary to protect themselves. The appearance of discord...
...hold a popular vote to "protect our country's sovereignty." Many interpreted that to mean Chen was flirting with the idea of a referendum on independence-an action that China has consistently warned will lead to war. The next day, according to one U.S. source, a furious Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State, rang the AIT office in Taipei and demanded to know what was going on and why the U.S. had not been forewarned. "[Powell] was not a happy camper," says the source...
...relatives in the U.S. maintain that he was abducted and then brainwashed by North Korea.) If Jenkins leaves North Korea, however, the Japanese would prefer that he stay in Japan for the sake of his family. Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi recently conferred with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on the Jenkins case; Koizumi also talked to President George W. Bush on the telephone last week about his planned trip to North Korea...
Medals are so last month. Secretary of State COLIN POWELL just got a new badge of honor. Scottish heraldic authorities have granted Powell, whose mother had Scottish ancestors, his very own coat of arms. On his crest, our top diplomat will have an eagle to denote the U.S., a lion because he's a military man and four stars for the rank he attained as general. Maybe now he can broker truces between raging British soccer fans...
...party in western Iraq, has undercut the Bush administration's best efforts to recover from the Arab-world PR disaster of Abu Ghraib. Ironically, part of the Bush administration's emergency PR salvage operation in the wake of the prison-abuse revelations was to hastily send Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to hold talks with Palestinian Authority prime minister Ahmed Qurei, to signal Arab leaders that Washington still sought to restart a negotiation process. But unless such dialogue evolves into a substantial new negotiation process that includes the Palestinian leadership - an unlikely eventuality...