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...leaders of the wealthy world weren't keen to launder much dirty linen in the famously clean waters of Evian last week. They talked about the global economy but not about the falling U.S. dollar; about advancing global free trade but not about cutting agricultural subsidies; about weapons of mass destruction but not - heaven forfend - about Iraq. There was one topic, however, on which Messrs. Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chrétien, Koizumi, Putin and Schröder talked real money: combatting aids in Africa, where it kills some 6,500 people a day, most of them women and children...
Vive la France!" declared George W. Bush in an interview with French television as the President and his entourage rolled into Europe last week. Like most of those attending the European summits with Bush - in Krakow, St. Petersburg, and at the G-8 in Evian - the Americans were playing down differences and talking up the need for greater transatlantic cooperation. Washington's goal: to allay European fears that victory in Iraq will tempt the U.S. to run roughshod over world opinion. "It isn't the power of the U.S. that needs to be checked," cooed Bush's national security adviser...
...moving in that direction - or ever will. Reaching compromise on the U.N.'s role won't be easy, so France is trying to signal its goodwill to the U.S. in other forms - notably in the planning for this June's meeting of the G-8, with France presiding in Evian. One impartial western diplomat involved in that process says the French have been "bending over backward" to accommodate American wishes for the event. They have given the Americans "everything they wanted," right down to a preferred time slot for the arrival of Air Force One and a higher profile...
Fearing the match would somehow ignite, Moutardier rushed back and got passengers to pass bottles of Evian to pour over Reid. Other crew members arrived on the scene. They brought plastic cuffs for Reid's hands, a seat-belt extension to tie up his feet. Passengers passed belts, headphone cords, anything they could find. (When the rerouted plane landed in Boston, Reid was so trussed up that the FBI had to cut him out of his seat.) A doctor on board was drafted to give him Valium, kept in the flight...
...Angeles and give out specially labeled popsicles and vitamin waters touting the coming broadcasts. Procter & Gamble sent out a trailer of elegant, air- conditioned Porta Potties, complete with hardwood floors and aromatherapy candles, to state fairs last summer to extol the virtues of Charmin toilet paper. Bottled-water producer Evian paid to repair a run-down public pool in the London neighborhood of Brixton and tile the bottom with its brand name--a message that was hard to miss for passengers flying in and out of nearby Heathrow Airport...