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Yeltsin Visits Japan President Boris Yeltsin made an uneventful visit to Tokyo for two days and met with Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa. By leaving Russia just one week after he suppressed the coup by retrograde parliamentarians, he flaunted his confidence that he was in control...
...with political reality. It now focuses on the end of the Iraq conflict - on "timetables," "timelines" or, in the Orwellian Newspeak of the White House, "joint aspirational time horizons." Whatever the language and whatever translations are used, the conversation is changing. Both the White House and the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, now publicly talk about temporal goals. Last week al-Maliki even declared a preference for Obama's 16-month redeployment plan - though his spokesman subsequently issued a vague, none-too-convincing clarification stating that the Prime Minister had been misunderstood. In response to al-Maliki's controversial...
...combat troop withdrawal] is an exaggeration." Leila Mohammed, a housewife in Baghdad's Karrada district, also shrugged at the significance of the visit, the first Obama will make to the war zone since clinching the Democratic nomination. "There is no need for Obama to meet [Iraq's Prime Minister] Nouri al-Maliki until after he has been elected," she said...
...Saturday, the Prime Minister jolted Washington when a German magazine, Der Spiegel, published comments from an interview in which he seemed to back the Democratic candidate's call for a 16-month timetable. Der Spiegel quoted Maliki as saying "U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right time frame for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes." But the comments came a day after Maliki and the White House agreed more vaguely to negotiate a "time horizon" for a continued U.S. troop presence in the country, and Sunday saw the Prime...
...Dabbagh also emphasized that Maliki would not be backing any specific candidate. Indeed, it would be a politically charged move for the Prime Minister to meet with Obama on his first visit to Iraq as a presidential candidate; he has yet to meet with Obama's opponent, John McCain, and meeting with one candidate might signal an endorsement. "Of course Maliki will avoid endorsing any candidate because the Republicans are currently in power and he is working with them," says Saadun Abbas, a 42-year-old Iraqi government employee. "But [I think] he will definitely agree to meet with Obama...