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After U.S. secretary of State Colin Powell spent a day in Berlin last week trying to patch up post-Iraq diplomatic damage, the question was clear: Does either side really want to make nice? Before Powell held talks with Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, he met briefly with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, with whom he was photographed shaking hands. Will the Chancellor enjoy the same photo op with President George W. Bush when the two attend summits in Russia and France in late May and early June? The two haven't spoken since November. The Germans have made it clear...
...Bremer's appointment had been characterized in the U.S. media as a victory for Secretary of State Colin Powell in his battles with Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, but while Bremer hails from the State Department, he is reported to hold hawkish views on Islamic extremism, and in his new position he reports directly to Rumsfeld. In fact, Washington insiders cite his ability to bridge the Defense-State divide as among his primary assets in the job. Another may be his understanding of the urgency of the U.S.-led occupation authority delivering security and services to ordinary Iraqis: His most senior position...
...That Colin Powell emerged relatively empty-handed from his Mideast trip to promote the U.S. peace "roadmap" is no reflection on the Secretary of State's powers of persuasion - it's simply a reminder of the limits of the "roadmap" concept in the face of the situation on the ground in Israel and the Palestinian territories, and, of course, in Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declined, at this stage, to endorse the "roadmap" that requires a sequence of steps by each side designed to achieve a Palestinian state living peacefully alongside Israel within three years. Sharon may, of course...
...COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State, when asked if France would suffer consequences for opposing...
...brinkmanship makes it tougher to argue for dangling carrots instead of wielding sticks. Seoul still wants further discussions and thinks the U.S. might eventually convince Kim to disarm by accepting the North's latest demands for economic assistance. But Washington isn't biting. Even U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, widely seen as relatively moderate, has refused to embrace the North's blueprint. "This proposal is a nonstarter," says an Administration official. The result? "Roh is conflicted," says Victor Cha, a Korea expert at Georgetown University. "He has no choice but to take a harder line if he wants...