Word: pact
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...precisely because of Iraq, there's a desire to come together. It just feels like the chemistry is right." But right for whom? The leaders themselves maintain that their partnership can bring direction and focus to a Union that's in disarray over everything from the Stability and Growth Pact to the proposed new constitution. But others fear that the Big Three are getting together to dictate terms to the rest of Europe. The trio could be the engine of a newly invigorated Europe - or the impetus for a slow-motion car wreck. It certainly won't hurt...
...vote turned the clock back to Oct. 4, 2000," Tadic said, referring to the day before Milosevic was toppled in a popular uprising. Voters are expressing their distaste, too. Leaving the parliament building after the deal was announced, Kostunica ran a gauntlet of angry ex-supporters who denounced the pact. "I voted for Kostunica, but I never expected him to deal with Milosevic's cronies," said a disgusted Ljubica Zivkovic, 55, a grocery store owner from Belgrade. "I thought I'd never see their faces again." Kostunica's alliance with the SPS will also increase suspicion in the West...
University officials in charge of community relations deserve praise for the pact they brokered last month with residents of the Agassiz neighborhood north of Harvard Yard...
...cold war, American troops are once again on the move. Thousands of troops based in Germany, Britain and other parts of Western Europe will likely be redeployed over the next few years back to the U.S. Meanwhile, new bases will open up in the former Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern Europe. Some G.I.s may even find themselves in Soviet-era bases that they once defended against. "We're not expecting the Soviet Union to launch a major tank war across the north German plain," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said while visiting Iraq last September. "So we need to adjust...
...million troops mobilized along a volatile border and the prospect of a war going nuclear, the talk-heavy, accomplishment-light seven-nation South Asian Area Regional Conference (SAARC) was even less useful than ever. Last week, SAARC was hauled back from the morgue, when the seven countries signed a pact to make South Asia a free-trade zone by 2006. The reason for the success: India and Pakistan were on board. More proof of something big in the air came a day later, when the two rivals announced that they would resume a "composite dialogue"?a code signifying that they...