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...rhetorical clashes over Moscow's decision to renew arms sales to Tehran, Washington's insistence it will go ahead with missile-defense systems, Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to drum up global resistance to the shield. The Russians were incensed by an interview in which Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld branded them an "active proliferator." Deputy Paul Wolfowitz chimed in, calling the Russian leaders "people willing to sell anything to anyone for money," who get billions in U.S. aid, then "turn around and do smaller quantities of obnoxious stuff that threatens our people...
...know," she said, and started working the phones back to Washington, talking with Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense chief Donald Rumsfeld and relaying information to the President. Bush remained publicly silent all through Sunday as U.S. diplomats looked for a discreet way out of the impasse. Bush knew that whatever signals he sent went not only to the Chinese but also to the rest of the world, which was waiting to see how an inexperienced new President would handle his first foreign policy test, how his instinct for caution would play against his equally instinctive impatience...
...whether civilians aboard for a day cruise may have been a distraction to crew members that contributed to the accident. The three admirals who conducted the inquiry are now considering what kind of legal proceeding should be taken against the Greeneville's skipper, Cdr. Scott Waddle. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, meanwhile, is mulling whether he should clamp down on the services' allowing civilians to ride on their war machines. But the reception I've gotten in Nebraska explains why the Navy wants to continue the practice...
...that crude. The hawks in the Bush administration - including Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney - are Cold War veterans who are not inclined to trust North Korea or China, which remains the behind-the-scenes sponsor of Korean rapprochement. They suspect that if Beijing managed to resolve the Korean conflict, it would remove Washington's rationale for stationing close to 40,000 troops on the Korean peninsula, between China and Japan - and that, the hawks fear, could dramatically tip the regional strategic balance in Beijing's favor...
...President plans to devote his contingency fund to as yet unbudgeted policy goals. He estimates $156 billion will go to reform Medicare. And though he won't give numbers while Don Rumsfeld conducts his review of the Pentagon, a large chunk will surely pay for modernizing the military and developing a national missile defense. Bush says there will be plenty left to cover natural disasters like earthquakes and economic disasters like the budget gaps that will open up if the surplus falls short of projections...