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...encouraging Robert Zoellick, a forceful conservative realist, to become Rice's Deputy Secretary-which may be a sign of new vice presidential wisdom as well. Philip Zelikow, who won praise as executive director of the 9/11 commission, will probably serve as Rice's counselor. Nicholas Burns, a career diplomat, will probably be Under Secretary for Political Affairs...
...quietly significant move, the post of Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs may go to a diplomat, David Welch, rather than to a neocon (although it is expected that the ever present Elliot Abrams will have a hand in this area from his perch at the National Security Council). The neoconservative lockout at State has led to speculation that the U.N. post might be thrown to them as a sop. The rumor last week was Paul Wolfowitz; the rumor the week before was Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton. There is a tradition of neoconservative eloquence...
Russia runs more than 100 known spies under official cover in the U.S., senior U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement officials say. And those are just the more easily spotted spies working under the classic guise of diplomat. An unknown number of so-called NOCs--who work under nonofficial cover as businessmen and -women, journalists or academics--undoubtedly expand the Russian spy force. "They're baaaaack," says a former senior U.S. intelligence official who worked against Moscow during the cold war. "They're busy as hell, but I don't think we've really got what it is that they...
...communiqu? after a plenary meeting of the Party's Central Committee last fall?the meeting at which Hu pushed Jiang into full retirement?Hu sees the answer to such problems in a strengthened Party whose cadres control the workings of government. "Hu offers a Leninist solution," says a Western diplomat in Beijing. "He doesn't want the Party out of government; he wants the Party to take over the government." The trend in China for the past 25 years, says Peking University law professor He Weifang, has been to gradually diminish the Party's reach. "Now it seems...
...Sins of the Son U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan has an image as the world's most trusted diplomat [Dec. 13]. The alleged involvement of his son in the oil-for-food scandal has put a blot on the father's reputation. But why should a father suffer for the sins of the son? It is for the father to decide how he should present his moral strength to the world. A. Jacob Sahayam Trivandrum, India...