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...president of the Andean Community of Nations. "Our economies are absolutely not structured to compete in the big leagues." The region's smaller economies in Central America and the Caribbean also fear change, since a huge part of their budget revenue currently comes from tariffs. Even for such a staunch FTAA supporter as Mexico, there is still so much to be gained from further deepening NAFTA ties that opinion is divided. "It's hard to find a real driving force," says Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castañeda. The final word on a timetable emerged from a meeting...
...reward for his staunch support, Milosevic installed Kertes as customs chief at the height of the Bosnian war in 1994. "The customs service was a crucial part of Milosevic's system, almost as important as the police," recalls Mladjan Dinkic, recently appointed head of the Yugoslav Central Bank and the author of a book on the regime's financial improprieties. "It was Milosevic's primary source of cash, and it never ran dry." Last week, investigators estimated that between 1994 and 2000 as much as $4 billion passed through Kertes' hands to Milosevic's inner circle...
...That may depend on how much the Democrats are willing to bend in the name of consensus. There are signs that even staunch party members may be ready to talk turkey - no one, after all, wants to be labeled as the party that sank the education bill. When asked about vouchers Tuesday, Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, chose to accentuate the positive. "We have differences in that area, but the areas where we are in agreement are substantial and can make a very important difference." Paris agrees that concord could at last be poised to overwhelm conflict, and cites...
...shift in Washington, in reality it may already be a done deal - not simply because the secretary of state has been building support for it among the regimes bordering Iraq, but because the comprehensive sanctions regime supported by the U.S. over the past decade is near collapse. When such staunch U.S. allies as Egypt are signing free trade pacts with Baghdad, then it's clear that what Powell is proposing may be simply a matter of salvaging the most important components of a sanctions package that has already failed...
...honest effort to strike that fine balance between revolutionary and moderate. He has renounced terrorism, and contrary to the wishes of many Palestinian and Arab leaders, he recognized Israel's right to existence and right to security. During the latter half of his career, he has been a staunch advocate of compromise and diplomacy. But the Western world does not think of him in this way: It remembers the Arafat of yesteryear--the one who could be linked to terrorist attacks in the 1970s and the one who associated with Saddam Hussein during the Gulf...