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...long worked to bring attention to the problems of Afghan women. "We asked the Administration to make returning women to equal status under the law a nonnegotiable issue in forming any new government," says Leno, wife of Tonight Show host Jay Leno. "That's pretty much the language Colin Powell used when he spoke at the State Department [last week], so it appears the government is going to do exactly that...
Even before the northern Alliance started routing the Taliban, two-thirds of British voters backed the way Tony Blair has been handling things; in the U.S., people feel more warmly toward him than any public figure besides Colin Powell - including President Bush...
...attacks can only complicate the mission of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's new Middle East envoy, retired Marine General Anthony Zinni, who was on his first trip to the region last week. He has already had tough talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who is meeting with President George Bush on Monday. Already Zinni is getting little support from his American compatriots. Some Bush Administration hard-liners have told TIME's Massimo Calabresi that they are worried Zinni and the State Department will pressure Israel to make concessions to P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat. For his part, Arafat...
After Sept. 11, we saw the president, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld all working with other nations, with the military and with intelligence to help us get through our current international crisis...
...week's end, Washington appears to have heard the panic signals. "Powell Reassures Arabs No Iraq," read a headline in Friday's Jordan Times. "After a meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher? (Secretary of State Colin) Powell said he understood and was taking into consideration Arab objections to US military action against Iraq. 'For now, this is nothing for us to disagree on,' Powell said." Still, even that "for now" qualifier has Arab leaders fearing a destabilizing domestic backlash...