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...RUSSIA Faced with the threat of a Russian veto in the Security Council, the State Department designated three Chechen rebel groups as "terrorist organizations," a step Moscow had been urging. But what Russia really needs is a guarantee of oil contracts in a post-Saddam Iraq and a repayment of $8 billion that Iraq owes Russia...
...Israel. If Esensten really cared about Israel’s well-being and peaceful existence, then he would be wondering about why Israel has been criticized so much, why it doesn’t exercise good government and equality for all its inhabitants regardless of whether they are of Russian, Ethiopian, French, Yemini or Palestinian descent and why it continues to defy U.N. resolutions that have been on the books for well over 30 years. It appears that Israel has decided to go it alone in this world and is not too hindered or concerned by the world?...
...shiny ballroom that is Lowell, you also get turned down. They, at least, have a good excuse: Lowell is putting up Eugene Onegin, a Russian opera, in the dining hall and they’ve lost a lot of seating to the stage. (Besides, they never seem to have any food in Lowell anyway...
...York - A White House official told TIME that Russian President Vladimir Putin has assured President George W. Bush he wouldn't cast a veto, with the U.S. bringing a second resolution to a vote at the UN Security Counsel this week...
...Franco-Russian-German camp remain unmoved, with Russia and France even brandishing the threat of a veto. And the reason for their resistance is precisely because, as President Bush's questioner noted, they see the problem of Saddam's weapons in different terms. While they know Iraq has residual stocks of chemical and biological weapons left over from its war with Iran, they don't believe Saddam's regime is an imminent threat to its neighbors, much less to the West. Iraq's military is considerably weaker now than when it was driven out of Kuwait a decade ago, they...