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Russian President Vladimir Putin has been traveling around Europe lobbying hard to undermine support for the U.S. antimissile shield--and making dire predictions of a "new arms race." America's European allies are concerned too. Senior European diplomats argue that if the U.S. creates a national missile defense, European reaction will be, "What are we going to do? How are we going to defend ourselves?" It will be badly received in Europe. And though China has only around 20 ICBMs, Beijing has threatened to build more if the U.S. goes ahead with NMD. Last week 45 U.S. experts on China...
...gratifying as the spread of democracy and market economics has been, it hasn't necessarily created a uniform interest among nations. Russia is now a full-fledged democracy, according to Washington, and yet since the election of President Vladimir Putin - whose popularity with voters was derived in no small part from sticking out his jaw in the face of Western criticism over his conduct in Chechnya - it has positioned itself ever more assertively as a competitor to Washington on the global stage. Putin is working aggressively (and not without success) to win Western European support for his opposition to Washington...
...Like some mobsters 5. Putin's former org. 8. Meir contemporary 12. The sun, to your skin 13. Surfer's milieu 14. A sibling of Bart's 15. City on the Tevere 16. Clinton dispatched her to the Mideast 18. Kucera upset him at the French Open 20. Toyota model until 1999 21. Stutz Bearcat contemporary 22. Sacagawea is on one 24. Shaun King, for one 26. "New Look" designer 28. Org. that has cut long-distance access fees 31. Kabibble of Kay Kyser's band 32. Angela's __ 34. Helen Thomas recently resigned from it 35. Sara __ is spinning...
...other words, unlike Boris Yeltsin, President Putin's going to be no pushover. And that's a lesson both Bill Clinton and his successor may learn the hard way - while, thousands of miles away, an aging former KGB chief smirks cryptically...
...collapse of the Soviet Union, and with it a steady flow of cheap oil, that sent North Korea's economy into precipitous decline during the '90s. But while Moscow left Pyongyang to its own devices - and China's - for most of the Yeltsin years, President Vladimir Putin has signaled renewed interest in the Korean peninsula by planning to become the first major head of state to visit Pyongyang in the South Koreans' wake. Russia, too, stands to gain from South Korean investments, and its own longstanding territorial conflicts with Japan (over the Kuril Islands) increase the importance of strengthening...