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...some of the most expert hit men in Europe. But with the ex-President behind bars, one man has emerged as stool pigeon No. 1. Mihalj Kertes, an unctuous 53-year-old of Hungarian descent, was head of the federal customs bureau in Belgrade - an unremarkable post in a normal country, but one that in Serbia placed him at the heart of an illegal network that extended to Milosevic, his inner circle and as far as Bosnia and Croatia...
...downed plane, had told his mother. It got so bad that U.S. officials complained. "We went to the Chinese and said, 'Your aircraft are not intercepting in a professional manner. There is a safety issue here,'" recalls Admiral Dennis Blair, head of the U.S. Pacific Command. "It's not normal practice to play bumper cars...
...retuned the message, the Administration discussed even tougher options. Diplomatic meetings and military exchanges could be canceled. Bush could drop his fall visit to Beijing. He could make dark noises about trade, even end normal trading status. The U.S. could get in the way of China's quest to hold the 2008 Olympics. Then there was the question of whether to sell advanced defensive weapons to Taiwan. "He's got a lot of sticks," a former Clinton Administration official says of Bush, "but the problem is, they...
Noise and dust due to construction has already started affecting nearby residents. Normal routes of access to Soldiers Field Park will be affected, and the visitor parking lot will be eliminated...
...that most of the policy areas that people talk about as areas where they could retaliate, such as trade relations, are things that we do for our own benefit. The U.S. doesn't push for China's entry into the World Trade Organization, for example, or to have permanent normal trade relations with Beijing, simply to benefit the Chinese; we do it because it's in our own economic interests. It's hard to find forms of retaliation that don't carry collateral damage...