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...Secretary of State Colin Powell has suggested the U.S. could provide some form of written assurance to satisfy North Korea's security concerns, although not a full- fledged non-aggression pact. But President Bush has repeatedly warned, even on the eve of the current talks, that Kim Jong Il cannot be trusted to keep agreements, and the White House came out in support of a speech by the arch-hawk Undersecretary of State for Non-Proliferation John Bolton that described Kim as a "tyrant" keeping his people imprisoned in a "living hell" and warned against giving in to Pyongyang...
...reaches the Security Council. Its beef: Libya has paid only $3,378 to $33,780 apiece to the relatives of 170 people killed in another Libya-backed terrorist attackon a French airliner in 1989. Paris' stance has not won it any new friends in Washington. Secretary of State Colin Powell, sore over France's opposition to the Iraq war, privately warned his French counterpart last week not to veto the deal...
...Bolton case illustrates the schizophrenia of U.S. policy towards North Korea. Ever since it first assumed office, the Bush administration has been divided over how to deal with the regime of Kim Jong Il. In February 2001 Secretary of State Colin Powell told Congress that the new administration would continue the dialogue with Pyongyang begun by the Clinton team, but was quickly rebuked by President Bush's skepticism that North Korea could be trusted to keep its agreements. North Korea justified that skepticism late the following year by admitting that it had been pursuing a clandestine nuclear weapons program...
...Afghanistan and Iraq, it is not surprising that the Pentagon and many members of the Administration have resisted an active peacekeeping role in Liberia. Bush has always made a point of saying he would not let American armed forces become a global police force. Only Secretary of State Colin Powell has been a relatively outspoken advocate of intervention in Liberia. He admitted to the Washington Times last week that the Administration could have done a better job of rallying a peacekeeping force and argued that "we do have an interest in making sure that West Africa doesn't simply come...
...DIED. COLIN MCMILLAN, 67, oil executive nominated in May by President Bush to be Secretary of the Navy; at his 55,000-acre ranch in Otero County, N.M. McMillan, who was awaiting confirmation and was called a "public servant and patriot" by Bush, had recently had a recurrence of cancer...