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...Force One to return to Washington Sunday night he had accomplished quite a good deal. The member nations of APEC had made a public declaration condemning terrorism, which, while stopping well short of endorsement for the American action, nevertheless allowed the Bush administration to claim support for its campaign. Russian President Vladimir Putin had shown even further warming to the U.S. position of dismantling the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. And, Bush had gotten through the traditional APEC class photo - where each leader is condemned to wear a gaudy shirt of his host country-without looking goofy. His work done, Bush...
...Blair, a socialist who had been Bill Clinton's soul mate. But the U.S. President judges people quickly and bluntly, and from their first meeting at Camp David last February, Bush aides confirm, his gut told him he liked Blair. There they had a long conversation about the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, whom Bush dismissed with "once a KGB man, always a KGB man." Blair had invested a lot of time getting to know Putin. He thought he was seriously trying to change Russia and suggested that Bush take a second look--which he did. (That has paid off enormously...
...breakfast of flat bread and kebab in the upper room of a tea shop, Ghulam Rabbani watches his troops in the bazaar below. Amid a throng of locals in the northeastern Afghan town of Baharak, scores of his Northern Alliance soldiers are making last-minute buys before boarding large Russian-built flatbed trucks for the three-day journey through the heart of the Hindu Kush mountains to the plains north of Kabul. "We've served in the north for the past four months," says Rabbani. "But we're being moved south for duty...
...price the Uzbeks are extracting for basing rights is modest. They just want some assurance that the Americans won't drop the region like a cigarette butt, as the U.S. did after the Russian army was defeated by the Afghan mujahedin 10 years ago. Pakistan is a different matter. The support of Islamabad is vital because of Pakistan's links to the Taliban and its proximity to the war zone. But in return, Pakistan wants Washington to put the brakes on the Afghan opposition...
...breakfast of flat bread and kebab in the upper room of a tea shop, Ghulam Rabbani watches his troops in the bazaar below. Amid a throng of locals in the northeastern Afghan town of Baharak, scores of his Northern Alliance soldiers are making last-minute buys before boarding large Russian-built flatbed trucks for the three-day journey through the heart of the Hindu Kush mountains to the plains north of Kabul. "We've served in the north for the past four months," says Rabbani. "But we're being moved south for duty...