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...troops now, whether the Iraqis are ready or not. The fact that even some of Bush's critics continue to advocate staying the course in Iraq helps explain why there doesn't seem to be much urgency in the Administration for speeding up the exit strategy. Notes Leslie Gelb, former Council on Foreign Relations president: "All Washington political insiders are saying the writing's on the wall, the troops are coming out. I don't think they're factoring the President into account. He's not running for re-election. He's a true believer...
...newspaper, Frankel is well regarded by newsmen and is close to Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, 60. He is described as a cautious editor unlikely to make drastic changes in the newspaper. His two chief deputies will be holdovers from the Rosenthal era: Deputy Managing Editor Arthur Gelb, 62, who is being promoted to managing editor, and Assistant Managing Editor James Greenfield, 62. Deputy Editorial Page Editor Jack Rosenthal, 51 (no relation to Abe), will replace Frankel as chief of the editorial page. His new deputy will be Leslie Gelb, 49, the Times's widely respected national-security correspondent...
Some staffers fret that Frankel may have difficulty putting his stamp on the paper as long as such key Rosenthal lieutenants as Gelb and Greenfield remain in place. Both, however, face mandatory retirement in less than three years, enabling Frankel to select his own deputies from a younger cadre of Times-men. Among the candidates: Assistant Managing Editor Craig Whitney, 43; Foreign Editor Warren Hoge, 45; and Metropolitan Editor John Vinocur, 46, who is expected to become editor of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune, which is partly owned by the Times...
...Iraq will soon provoke a full-scale Sunni rebellion and civil war. Last week's announcement that armed Shi'ite and Kurdish militias would continue to be tolerated by the new government certainly didn't help. "There needs to be an immediate, aggressive U.S. diplomatic intervention," says Leslie H. Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, who recently visited Iraq. "The Sunnis and Shi'ites have to cut a deal, and we should help them get there...
...skeptics who wrote off her early forays as standard grip-and-grin fare are beginning to pay attention. ("She's doing quite well because she's saying all those things that she and the President prevented [former Secretary of State] Colin Powell from saying for four years," says Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.) One important move: the U.S. agreeing to a plan forged by the British, French and Germans to offer Iran trade incentives if it abandons its nuclear-weapons program. In return, the Europeans will back Bush's plan to ask the U.N. Security...