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...even later date, but the new agreement would at least allow the 10 candidate countries to get in before negotiations with Turkey open. "The French were worried about facing the Turkish question at the same time they were getting their Parliament to ratify the new members," says a Brussels diplomat. The decision rang alarm bells in Britain, which wants faster action on Turkey and eyes the Franco-German alliance with concern. On the eve of the last European Council meeting in October, Chirac and Schröder worked out a deal that assured France's princely take of E.U. agricultural...
...addition to choosing an experienced and talented person for this challenging job, Bush seems to be offering his ideological support for Kissinger’s controversial diplomatic methods—methods that will likely resurface in the committee’s final report. Kissinger is a man who operates under the principle that the ends justify the means. Although he achieved what other diplomats could not in opening China in 1972 and negotiating the end to both the Yom Kippur and Vietnam wars, his devotion to realpolitik in the 1960s and ’70s was unparalleled and remains significant...
...London says, "We are getting a significantly higher level of contacts from regime insiders, including very senior ones in circles around Saddam." Sometimes, this official claims, such contacts have been in telephone calls direct from Iraq, something the I.N.C. hasn't seen before. Ghassan Atiyyah, a former Iraqi diplomat who edits the Iraq File, a monthly newsletter, in London, says his answering machine has taken messages from people inside Iraq telling him of the movement of weapons...
...Party leaders, he promised to consult Jiang on major decisions. He will also send Jiang minutes of important meetings. In a Nov. 22 visit to China, former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry expected to meet with Hu; instead he wound up talking to Jiang, according to a former diplomat close to Perry. And Jiang remains the Party's propaganda darling. In the last 10 days of November, Jiang's photo appeared on the front page of the Party's mouthpiece, the People's Daily newspaper, 10 times, com-pared to Hu's single showing. With Jiang staying atop the army...
...continuing?a senior militant was detained on Sept. 27 and police say they are still pursuing scores of others?the authorities in Malaysia are "reasonably confident they have taken all possible measures to minimize the danger of an attack," according to one official source in Kuala Lumpur. A Western diplomat points out, however, that Malaysia's past record and continuing role as a meeting place for Islamic radicals (the country's policy of not requiring visas for visitors from Islamic countries?aimed at boosting tourism from the Middle East?has yet to see any substantial changes) may ironically provide...