Word: slovenia
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...three generations of Bushes gathered at Camp David last week, the conversation turned to Dubya's five-day, five-country tour, which will culminate in a face-to-face session with Russian President Vladimir Putin Saturday in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The father, says a source close to the former President, has been thinking back on his own maiden voyage to Europe as President in May 1989--and recalling how valuable intelligence can be before a summit. "The old man had been getting signals from people in Europe," the source says, and gave his son "a little dose of realism" about...
...relatively low-key approach. But in the last few days, they've started to say very clearly that discussion of missile defense can only take place in the framework of the ABM treaty (which Bush has said needs to be renegotiated or scrapped). That suggests he's going into Slovenia talks with Bush in a fairly rigid state of mind. That doesn't mean they'll come out in the same state of mind - the Russians and Soviets before them tended to go into negotiations in hard-nosed way. Still, it seems they're emphasizing the ABM as the cornerstone...
...whole question of missile defense still rides very much on Saturday's meeting between President Bush and President Vladimir Putin in Slovenia. Remember, the ABM treaty is between the Russians and the U.S. The Europeans can only influence the discussion from the outside. Still, Putin's own spine will have been strengthened by the European position...
Peljto had already built up a considerable legacy before coming to Harvard. She lived through an extraordinary childhood-she was born in Bosnia, before her family fled from the war to Slovenia, where she first picked up basketball...
...ribbon United Nations panel assessing the condition of a still unified Yugoslavia back in 1991 called it a state in the "process of dissolution." Well, it took 10 years of bloodshed, but the job is almost done. The original six Yugoslav republics have been whittled down to two. First Slovenia and Croatia went their own ways, then Bosnia withdrew, triggering the long siege of Sarajevo, then Macedonia managed to get out miraculously without violence. Now, with a seemingly minor election later this week in the small mountain republic of Montenegro, Serbia's remaining partner in the incredible shrinking federation...