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SADDAM'S LAST STAND The Iraqi leader has pulled his Adnan Republican Guard division from the northern city of Mosul toward Baghdad, suggesting that he is more interested in a showdown in his capital than in defending Iraq's borders. The same ethnic tensions that make Iraq tough to govern should make it easier to push Saddam and his defenders into Baghdad. The Kurds have virtual autonomy in northern Iraq. In the south, U.S. troops face an uncertain reception. While Shi'ite Muslims disdain Saddam's Sunni-led government, they are also wary of a coalition that allowed Saddam...
...speaking about the intensity of what is about to occur. The rules that have been violated are those that govern the etiquette of complex international relations--the rules of diplomacy. The notion, for example, that the President of the U.S. would challenge our oldest allies to a public showdown is quite remarkable. (Presidents usually do the precise opposite: they struggle to avoid any appearance of disunity.) This is a breathtaking gamble, and the question arises: Is it witting or not? Is the Administration's disdain for diplomatic precedent a strategy--a conscious effort to challenge the institutions and arrangements...
...seed Brown (14-13-4) at the Bears’ Meehan Auditorium at noon tomorrow. With a victory, Harvard would face the winner between No. 2 seed Dartmouth (24-7-0) and No. 3 seed Princeton (20-8-2) at noon on Sunday in a live-televised showdown on NESN...
...speaking about the intensity of what is about to occur. The rules that have been violated are those that govern the etiquette of complex international relations - the rules of diplomacy. The notion, for example, that the President of the U.S. would challenge our oldest allies to a public showdown is quite remarkable. (Presidents usually do the precise opposite: they struggle to avoid any appearance of disunity.) This is a breathtaking gamble, and the question arises: Is it witting or not? Is the Administration's disdain for diplomatic precedent a strategy - a conscious effort to challenge the institutions and arrangements...
...some type of moral framework; if it doesn’t, it will become totally irrelevant. With America, Great Britain and Spain submitting a new resolution declaring Iraq in “further material breach” of previous resolutions, the stage has been set for one final diplomatic showdown. All told, these next three weeks may well constitute the U.N.’s moment of reckoning...