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...White House swats away such complaints with a disdain that isn't likely to improve relations. "It's crap!" snaps a senior Administration official. Every member of Congress wants special treatment, the official says, and if you deploy the President too often, he wastes his time and loses his power to convert. "You don't get the President involved at the start," says a White House official. "You set the table and insert him at key points in the process to get key things done, to make key calls to certain people [to tell them it's] time...
...Macedonia back from civil war after the evacuation of armed ethnic Albanian rebels from a village near the capital sparked violent Macedonian Slav protests. Amid a flurry of diplomatic activity - a new E.U. envoy, François Léotard, arrived in Skopje - NATO approved a conditional plan to deploy 3,000 troops and Macedonia's Interior Ministry said it would demobilize some police reservists. Earlier in the week, U.S. President Bush signed an order barring Americans from financing the rebels, a move NATO chief George Robertson said the E.U. might follow. RUSSIA Defending Iraq Moscow said it would block...
...Europe, the likely place for employing new military technologies?like pilotless planes or weapons platforms positioned "over the horizon." Since Washington's last thoroughgoing review of its defense policy, its relationship with key allies in Asia has also expanded. Australia showed in East Timor it was prepared to deploy its first-class armed forces in pursuit of regional security; expect Washington to deepen its security ties with Canberra...
...example proves that a C-student (at least a C-student named Bush) could still become President of the United States, will need to get better marks than that if he hopes to persuade skeptical Europeans and Russians to ditch the Cold War arms control framework in order to deploy a hypothetical missile shield against a hypothetical missile threat...
...brief: The 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty remains a key legal obstacle to the Bush administration's intention to build a missile shield. In order to deploy the system, Washington would either have to persuade the Russians to renegotiate the treaty or withdraw from it. The Bush team has been trying to persuade both the Russians and European NATO members of the need to move beyond Cold War arms-control agreements in order to deal with the threats of a new century. But the Russians have refused to renegotiate the ABM treaty, and insist that it remains the cornerstone...