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Even before 1966, when Charles de Gaulle pulled his country out of NATO's integrated military command structure, France had a complex relationship with the Atlantic alliance. Since then, it retains a seat at the table in diplomatic and political terms, but doesn't take part in defense planning. President Jacques Chirac demonstrated France's diffident stance in 1999 by intervening in the setting of targets during the NATO air campaign against Serbia, and again last year by leading efforts to block the dispatch of air-defense systems to Turkey before the invasion of Iraq. So there was an inevitable...
...tunnel-and-bridge project to Chongming Island, and city officials say the second phase of a deepwater port has not been blocked by central planners. The message seemed to be that Shanghai could continue steaming ahead. "Hu set out to defang Jiang's tiger" in Shanghai, says the Western diplomat...
...thing is clear: this story isn't over. Earlier this month, an IAEA team left Seoul after taking more samples at the TRIGA Mark III reactor. According to the Geneva-based diplomat, "There is more to come...
...allowed to make plutonium or enriched uranium, the two fuels for nuclear bombs, under its nonproliferation commitments, and the procedure carried out in 1982 would have had few other purposes. "It is something which is pretty exclusively reserved for finding out about plutonium," says a Geneva-based diplomat. It's also a procedure that's hard to cover up?although South Korea appears to have tried. The Ministry of Science and Technology says it reported the experiment to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1983, but its report had a significant error. South Korea told the IAEA its scientists...
...more than a year ago told TIME that the bureau sought information on key AIPAC personnel, their meetings with White House and other national-security officials in Washington and even details about their personal lives. At one point, the FBI was surveilling a meeting between an Israeli diplomat and an AIPAC official when the Pentagon's Franklin suddenly appeared, igniting concerns. Franklin, a former Air Force Reserve officer, served briefly in the U.S. military attache's office in Israel in the late 1990s. Since the summer of 2001, he has worked as an Iran expert for Douglas Feith, the Pentagon...