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...this Southeastern resort. Most just removed their ties. So while Bush often looked ready to play golf, the others seemed like traveling executives settling in for cocktail hour. Food was a preferred topic, as Chirac complimented Bush on the cheeseburger he'd been served, and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi praised the Italians, sort of. "I love Italy! Berlusconi! Spaghetti!" he said, waving his arms. The place was hungry for good humor. - By John F. Dickerson Second Time Lucky? POLAND President Aleksander Kwasniewski nominated the leftist former Finance Minister Marek Belka as Prime Minister, again. Belka has two weeks...
When Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi departed for North Korea last Saturday, it was the biggest gamble of his career. Koizumi's mission was to fly back with the relatives of five Japanese citizens whom North Korea abducted in the 1970s and '80s. When Koizumi returned to Tokyo later that same night with five of the eight family members, his gamble?at least in part?seemed to have paid off. Still left behind, however, was the family of 45-year-old abductee Hitomi Soga: her 64-year-old American husband, Charles Robert Jenkins, and their two daughters, 20-year...
...maintain that he was abducted and then brainwashed by North Korea.) If Jenkins leaves North Korea, however, the Japanese would prefer that he stay in Japan for the sake of his family. Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi recently conferred with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on the Jenkins case; Koizumi also talked to President George W. Bush on the telephone last week about his planned trip to North Korea...
...late last week, American military, legal and diplomatic experts apparently still hadn't decided what to do if Jenkins did fly to Japan, although they have several options. An unequivocal demand for Jenkins, one that left Japan no way to say no, could run the risk of alienating Koizumi's government. But an outright pardon, which Japan has suggested, would send the wrong message about discipline and desertion to U.S. troops. A third tack, according to one diplomatic source, would be for the U.S. to ask Japan to hand over Jenkins?but not complain when it fails...
...banned since 1954 - was hoping to train the members to eventually return home to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak's regime. Senior Brotherhood leader Essam El Eryan told TIME that his group was "against violence." Families Reunited NORTH KOREA After meeting with leader Kim Jong Il, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won the release of five children of former Japanese abductees who were kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and set free almost two years ago. In return, Koizumi pledged emergency aid for North Korea...