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As you know, the commission that I co-chair with lee Hamilton isn't scheduled to submit its Iraq-policy recommendations until next month, but the situation on the ground is deteriorating rapidly and I felt compelled to offer this unofficial interim report. Your range of options in Iraq has...
...open its ports to Greek Cypriot ships. If Turkey does not budge by December, E.U. officials warn, membership talks may be suspended. Last week, plans to hold a summit on the issue had to be abandoned because of an unwillingness to compromise by all sides. The E.U.'s Commissioner for Enlargement, Olli Rehn, has called the prospect of breaking off membership talks with Turkey a "train wreck" whose consequences are "so negative I don't care to think of them." He'd better start thinking, because opinions are hardening on the island. Since entering the E.U., attitudes among Greek Cypriot...
DIED. P.W. Botha, 90, apartheid- era South African President whose rigid defense of racial separation overshadowed his secret 1989 talks with jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela; in Wilderness, South Africa. Known as the "Old Crocodile" for his fearsome temper, Botha made some reforms, giving Asians and mixed-race citizens--but...
In the past few weeks, it’s been nearly impossible to step into a Massachusetts grocery or liquor store without encountering a flurry of passionate posters advocating or discouraging the expansion of wine vending licenses. The measure that would do so, Question One on this November�...
Aleman's record didn't deter Ortega from cozying up to his erstwhile nemesis, and in 2000 the Sandinistas struck a cynical deal with the Liberal Constitutionalists to control Nicaragua's Congress (which this month passed a controversial total ban on abortion) and its courts, and to freeze out the...