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...coalition partners, having responded positively last week to their call for a revival and expansion of the UN oil-for-food program to meet Iraq's humanitarian needs. Still, important differences remain, and the sanctions issue may be the last opportunity for the antiwar Europeans to exert any leverage. France said this week that the coalition forces have primary responsibility for maintaining security in Iraq, and that the UN's role should be established on an issue-by-issue basis. But it remains committed, along with its European Union partners (including Britain) in pressing for a "central role...
Mazzoleni expects the Red Raiders to exert strong pressure against Grumet-Morris...
...What really shocked participants was that Roh's envoy made it clear South Korea is not prepared to exert any kind of diplomatic pressure on the North, the kind of pressure the U.S. thinks could peacefully halt the North's nuclear program. Says one U.S. academic in the talks: "Do they understand that in the long run, the alternative is a nuclear Japan, and in the short term the alternative is a U.S. strike against Yongbyon...
...Harvard Liberal Union, voiced the backing of his group. Ames said, "I feel sure that the Liberal Union will fully support the declaration of war against Japan. I am glad to see that our long-standing policy of appeasement to Japan has been junked. We must now exert all our efforts to winning the war, and to winning the peace after...
Tenet's inability to exert his authority over all U.S. spy efforts was a key factor in missing the 9/11 plot, congressional overseers concluded last December. "Our joint inquiry found that one of the major gaps in our intelligence, which contributed to 9/11, was the failure to have effective coordination among the various components of the intelligence community," says Graham. While Tenet's supporters agree that lack of coordination has been a problem, they insist it has been alleviated since passage of the U.S.A. Patriot Act. "There has been extraordinary cooperation between the intelligence community and law enforcement since 9/11...