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...Rumsfeld had been sent to pitch the system to the continentals, but he appears to have registered little progress. And that bodes ill for President Bush?s meetings with Canada?s Prime Minister Jean Chretien on Monday, and with Britain?s Prime Minister Tony Blair later this month. The British share many of Europe?s concerns, while Chretien issued a joint statement with Russia?s President Vladimir Putin late last year insisting that Washington respect the ABM treaty...
...Rumsfeld toned down for his meeting with the Europeans, soft-pedaling on the ABM issue and focusing his pitch on limited missile defense against "rogue" nations. He even laid out the somewhat improbable scenario of a missile-defenseless U.S. being intimidated by some Third World bully from staying out of a regional conflict for fear of being attacked. The Europeans are unlikely to swallow that argument from a nation whose current secretary of state once warned North Korea's Kim Jong Il that if he even threatened the U.S. with nuclear weapons, he'd be "turned into a charcoal briquette...
...overall traffic-control activity, but it pays just 3 percent of the costs. When it starts to infringe on pressure points - as it did last summer in the crowded New York airspace - it can back up thousands of passengers. It should get out of the way, or at least pitch in more for the services...
...state soared. He didn't get everything he wanted - he couldn't change the structure of property taxes in Texas, for instance - but it didn't matter. His ascendancy and his popularity never faltered. As governor of Texas, from the first moment to the last, he had perfect pitch. When he ran for reelection he got about two thirds of the vote...
When he began to campaign for president, he faltered badly. In Texas it was easy to see that the person campaigning was not the person we had known as governor. Suddenly, the man with perfect pitch was completely off-key. He seemed to revert to the haphazard rambler I had met in his office. But he found his bearings, began to emphasize certain issues - especially education, where he is well versed - and once again it was good enough, barely...