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Columbia kicker Nick Rudd missed two field goal attempts, but Dartmouth kicker Tyler Lavin did him one better, missing three. Lions quarterback Jeff Otis threw a pick, but Big Green quarterback Charlie Rittgers matched it and raised with...
...value of the alliance," Latham said. "We support the U.S. alliance 100%." To underscore the message, he named Kim Beazley - a former Defence Minister credited with holding the alliance together after New Zealand's exit - as Labor's defense spokesman, and yielded the microphone on foreign affairs to Kevin Rudd, a centrist well known and respected in Washington. "The calculation of the political hardheads in the party is that no Labor party can win an election in Australia on a position of anti-Americanism or opposition to the American alliance," says Alan Dupont, a defense and strategy analyst at Sydney...
...Putting the U.S. alliance ahead of the will of the U.N. is not Labor's idea of acting in Australia's best interest. "Our first and foremost responsibility is adherence to the U.N. system of collective security," says foreign affairs spokesman Rudd. Labor would have supported intervention in Iraq only if the war had U.N. backing. If a future American call for help conflicted with U.N. rulings, Rudd says, "we would act in concert with our ally consistent with our obligations under the treaty." But "we'd note that Article 1 provides for partners to seek to resolve any challenge...
...Labor side wary of getting too close. "Following a U.S. President who's got the wrong strategy in the war against terror is very, very dangerous for our country," said Latham before the Iraq war. Sending troops to Iraq "has made Australia into a greater terrorist target," says Rudd. Downer disagrees. "We cannot expect to have a meaningful alliance with the U.S. if we are not prepared to stand shoulder to shoulder with it in the war on terror," he says, and the project to build democracy in Iraq is a crucial component of that...
...Labor, relations with Australia's Southeast Asian neighborhood are as important as those with the U.N. and the U.S. A Labor government would "accelerate, broaden and deepen the engagement of our police, intelligence and security agencies" in the region, Rudd says. In sending troops to Iraq, he adds, the government "diverted resources away from the war against terrorism here in our own region." But "terrorism is a global problem," says Downer...