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...East Room--on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. "It got zero coverage," says an aide. And the designated high point of Bush's trip to Europe last month--his speech in Warsaw calling for NATO expansion and a unified Europe--came a day before his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, so the press ignored...
CONVICTED. GEORGE TROFIMOFF, 74, retired Army Reserve colonel and son of Russian emigres; of spying for the U.S.S.R. and Russia; in Tampa, Fla. From 1969 to '94, Trofimoff fed Moscow highly classified documents--including some with detailed U.S. knowledge of Soviet military capabilities--from an Army interrogation center in Nuremberg, Germany. He is facing a possible life sentence...
UKRAINE A Papal Call for Reconciliation Despite pleas from Russian Orthodox Patriarch Aleksy II to cancel, Pope John Paul II went ahead with a five-day visit to Ukraine. There he ignored Orthodox priests waving banners that read "Orthodoxy or death" and continued his mission to reconcile the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, apologizing in Ukrainian for past "errors" and declaring that "unity and harmony ... is the secret of peace". NORTHERN IRELAND Showdown The British and Irish governments planned intensive negotiations to tackle the latest crisis in the peace process. The reason: Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble's resignation as First...
...Since his first breakdown, Solomon has suffered two relapses, one while writing this book. Depression is "always there, waiting in the wings." Yet he has learned to embrace his suffering, citing the Russian proverb that "if you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead." Depression has taught him "what it means to be human, what is good in being human." It has allowed him to come to terms with his terminally ill mother's suicide and forced him to confront his confusion over his sexuality. Solomon apologizes that "no book can span the reach of human suffering...
...General John Ashcroft from such corners as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and CIA chief George Tenet and would clearly prefer the back-room route from here on out. For one thing, a trial would have forced prosecutors to put on the witness stand the FBI's prize source - a Russian who stole Hanssen's KGB file from Moscow Center, as Russian intelligence headquarters is known, and handed it over to the bureau. For another, the National Security Agency would have had to reveal highly classified details about its communications intercept capabilities in order to show exactly why the secrets Hanssen...