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...self, and its economy today is smaller than Portugal's. But it does still have the same power as the U.S., Britain, France and China to veto UN Security Council resolutions. That's why President Bush on Thursday sent an envoy to Moscow in an effort to persuade President Vladimir Putin to back a tough new UN ultimatum to Iraq to disarm, or else. Russia has maintained that Saddam Hussein's recent offer to comply with new arms inspections means that no new resolutions are necessary. But Kremlin-watchers have long suggested this was a bargaining strategy, designed...
...West's most visible face in Skopje, Macedonia's capital. He is also spearheading the current effort to redraw what is left of Yugoslav into a new federation that accommodates the requirements of both Serbs and Montenegrins. "Europe is more and more capable of speaking with one voice," conceded Vladimir Djeric, a top Yugoslav foreign ministry official. These are critical days for the region. While the worst of the Yugoslav wars may be over, the next two months bring a flurry of elections that will test the lingering clout of nationalists and hard-liners from Banja Luka to Belgrade...
Bush's approach might at least be bracing if there were not so many instances in which his initial instincts have proved to be the wrong ones. He initially dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin with a glib quip: "Once a KGB man, always a KGB man." But as he learned more about the Russian, largely at the prodding of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, he changed his mind, saying he had "had a sense of [Putin's] soul...
...drop in tourism is something the Czech Republic can particularly ill-afford, since vacationing foreigners last year accounted for $3 billion in revenue - some 5.3% of GDP - according to the Czech Tourism Authority. "The situation in southern and northern Bohemia is a catastrophe," said Czech Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda. Vladimir Zunt, spokesman for the town of Cesky Krumlov, described his city - a medieval gem and one of the most popular tourist destinations outside Prague - as "Sodom and Gomorrah," with 2-m-deep holes in the streets and gas and electrical lines ripped out. The government has so far pledged...
...Fitzgerald's letters), I've never quite see the point of it. There's an argument to be made that when a person's correspondence with one individual is extensive and interesting enough it should be published separately (as has been done with Wilson's letters to and from Vladimir Nabokov), but in a book like this it feels more distracting than enlightening to group them this...