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...Suleimaniye Mosque, Istanbul (174 ft.). Suleiman the Magnificent's reply to Justinian's Hagia Sophia...
...Bond (Pierce Brosnan) faces Russian terrorists bent on destroying Istanbul with hijacked plutonium so that they can wipe out three oil pipelines. This would allow for a fourth pipeline, running from Russia to the West, that would bear all of the oil, turning a tidy profit and endangering the United States' oil supply. In the end--sorry to ruin it--Bond kills the bad guys and sleeps with the heroine...
Russia balked, walked and then signed - but kept on bombing the Chechens anyway. In a somewhat confusing sequence of events at a European security summit in Istanbul Thursday, President Boris Yeltsin tore into Western critics of Moscow's military campaign in Chechnya and walked out of a discussion with European leaders on the crisis, after which his foreign minister Igor Ivanov proceeded to sign documents that conceded to some Western concerns. The Charter for European Security upholds the principle that conflicts within one signatory state are the legitimate concern of all, which means Moscow signed away its argument that...
...have to go back at least 18 years to find a moment of comparable Washington-Moscow tension. President Boris Yeltsin arrived in Istanbul Wednesday spoiling for a fight when he meets President Clinton at Thursday's summit meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Amid rising Western alarm over Moscow?s military campaign in Chechnya, Clinton plans to warn Yeltsin that Russia's policy of flattening the breakaway region in order to strike at terrorists is a "dead end," and that external mediation is required. But Yeltsin no longer regards Clinton a policy adviser in good standing...
...Russians plan to fire first in Istanbul. "Moscow will go on the attack over U.S. efforts to renegotiate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty," says Meier. "They'll put their own issues on the table even before the West raises Chechnya." As if to underline the new bellicose mood in Moscow, a Russian nuclear submarine Wednesday test-fired two ballistic missiles - the third Russian missile test in a month. "We can expect a lot of bluster from Yeltsin," says Meier. "And even a dramatic gesture wouldn?t be surprising." That could be sparked by the presence of representatives...