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...major construction sites helpfully remind the workers - and despite remarkable progress in recent months, serious doubts remain about whether all the projects will be completed on time. In April 2000, Juan Antonio Samaranch, then president of the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.), warned that the Games were endangered by delays in construction and planning. Heads rolled in Athens. Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who had led the bid to secure the Games for the city, was brought back in May 2000 to head ATHOC, the Athens Organizing Committee. She got results. She reorganized ATHOC, forged close links with the Greek government...
...with existing ones. Moscow may eventually come around - particularly if it wins concessions from the U.S. on its own demand to be authorized to pursue Chechen rebels into neighboring Georgia, and guarantees that its economic stake will be recognized in a post-Saddam Iraq - although they may want to delay such a resolution at least until chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix returns from a September 30 meeting with Iraqi officials in Vienna to finalize arrangements for the inspectors' return...
Susan Hirschmann, a former chief-of-staff to House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, was the highest ranking female staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives...
...once again Hussein, Aziz, et al will try to keep them out of palaces, bunkers and the like. When that happens and the U.S. tries to go back to the U.N. and ask for a Security Council resolution to use force, it will mean there has been only further delay and the Iraqi coalition-splitting tactics will have proved successful...
...international body and setting a new ultimatum was a "trigger" strategy, designed to ensure maximum international consent for a war the Administration appears to believe is inevitable. The Administration has been mindful of the danger of getting bogged down in a lengthy new round of arms inspections that both delay the march to war and, key Administration officials insist, are a fundamentally inadequate safeguard against Saddam's weapons of mass destruction ambitions. So even as Secretary of State Colin Powell continues to arm-wrestle his counterparts at the UN, Washington's war plans continue to unfold - from seeking a congressional...