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...Jane Blackman called and e-mailed the British foreign ministry, until they worked their way up to Prime Minster Tony Blair's office. By coincidence, Blair was scheduled to be in Japan on July 21 for the Group of Eight economic summit in Okinawa. Blair raised the issue of Lucie's disappearance with his Japanese counterpart, Yoshiro Mori. The high-level contacts brought immediate results. Soon after the G-8 meeting, Tim Blackman says, "I was told by the police that they had suddenly solved all of the technical and legal problems in tracing the phone calls...
...Mickey Mouse summit? Maybe in Tomorrowland. In the real world, Pyongyang-watchers from Seoul to Washington were left wondering, as is usually the case with North Korean affairs, what's up. Since North Korean passport holders?even children of the country's leader?aren't welcome in most of the world, it's not unusual for well-connected North Koreans to travel with false papers. Kim, in fact, is believed to have traveled incognito to Japan on at least two other occasions...
Other countries in the region have reservations of their own. They fret that FARC, ELN and the paramilitaries will begin looking for safe havens outside Colombia. Two weekends ago, at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, the Presidents of the nations surrounding Colombia told President Bush that they are worried Plan Colombia will simply push drugs and violence into their yards. In response, the Bush Administration has been fine-tuning a wider Andes plan, which would expand U.S. operations into all five countries. The plan would be more than double the size of Plan Colombia and would represent...
...James Baker's right hand during Bush I, and has been an invaluable adviser to Bush II. During the Florida recount, Republican operatives wowed by his district-to-district recall labeled him "the human adding machine." Last week, as he took a break from briefing Bush for the summit, he spelled out his strategy for getting trade deals done...
...dental work b) the Summit of the Americas meeting in Quebec City c) rumored plans for release of The Blair Witch Project III d) ballpoint pens that leak when you chew on them...