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...first encounter with Putin to go smoothly. In the first few months after taking office, Bush was under constant assault by European allies for his unilateralist foreign policy, including his snubbing of Moscow. Among the signs of disrespect: the ouster from the U.S. of 50 alleged Russian diplomat-spies in March 2001, the five-month delay before setting a first Bush-Putin meeting, and the threat, since carried out, to withdraw unilaterally from the 1972 U.S.-Soviet Antiballistic Missile Treaty in order to build a national missile-defense system. British Prime Minister Tony Blair personally urged Bush to tone down...
...been behaving himself in their absence. The U.N. has collected reams of color satellite photos showing an unmistakable boom in reconstruction of Iraqi sites, some of which were weapons facilities in the past. "You can see hundreds of new roofs in these photos," says Hans Blix, the Swedish diplomat who heads the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, which is preparing to conduct future inspections in the event Saddam consents to them. "But you don't know what's under them." U.S. intelligence officials beg to differ. Says one: "The Iraqis have been putting themselves in a position to rejuvenate...
With hard-liners seizing on such testimony as reason to attack, it falls to Secretary of State Colin Powell--whom many Administration hawks blame for preventing a march on Baghdad at the end of the Gulf War--to play the lonely diplomat. While batting down rumors that he is fed up and quitting, Powell and his deputy, Richard Armitage, are close to getting a new set of Iraqi sanctions at the U.N. But other Administration principals fear that Saddam is working his own U.N. angle for the return of weapons inspectors to Iraq, whose presence could make the U.S. look...
...charge when he ordered the arrests of Ne Win and his family members in March for allegedly planning a coup. That Than Shwe would move against Ne Win and purge his supporters in the military shows that Than Shwe will brook no dissent on either political or economic fronts. Diplomats say Ne Win, his clan and their followers in the army were opposed to the dialogue with Suu Kyi. Now, says a Western diplomat, "Than Shwe has never been stronger...
...pushing 1,000 to the dollar and inflation is running between 50% and 70%. Economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and threats of sanctions from the International Labor Organization have companies such as Pepsi steadily pulling out. "At this point, disinvestment is greater than investment," says a Western diplomat...