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...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...
Libya expects to get sanctions relief and international acceptance as a result of the deal. But the potential American concessions are troubling to neoconservatives in the Administration who scorn deals with dictators. From negotiations with North Korea to an inspections pact with Iran, Bush has repeatedly sided with the moderate wing of the Republican foreign-policy establishment over the past few months. The Libya deal further suggests that Bush may be tacking to the center to protect himself against trouble in Iraq during an election year...
Part of Harvard Film Archive’s annual festival “New Films from Europe,” Hard Goodbyes tells the story of Elias, a young boy living in Athens, who makes a pact with his father to watch the telecast of man leaving this earth and landing on the moon. Their collective imagination and their shared stories about adventures and explorations help Elias deal with the unimaginable: when his father takes leave of this earth as well. Greek with English subtitles. Harvard Film Archive, 7 p.m. Tickets $8/$6 students...
...well they, too, can play a self-centered game - and proved that power is a temptation for all nations, not just the U.S. What the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change and the International Criminal Court are to America (the U.S. says no to both), the E.U. Stability and Growth Pact is to France and Germany. The pact enjoins all 12 members of the euro bloc to maintain strict fiscal discipline. Above all, they were to keep their deficit spending below 3% of GDP in order to stave off inflation. But what's a sacrosanct international agreement when the national interest...
...cosmetic ftaa that has no teeth." That might not upset U.S. President George W. Bush. As he mounts his 2004 re-election campaign, U.S. labor unions and Florida citrus and sugar barons, all famed for lavish campaign contributions, have voiced their own loathing for the pact. In the end, Brazil's "daring" just may give Bush the political out he needs at home - as well as the political boost Lula wants abroad...