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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...
...THERE Vladimir Zhirinovsky, eccentric Russian Liberal Democratic Party leader, posts a letter offering unsolicited advice "as that of an uncle to his nieces" to the Bush daughters, deriding their underage drinking as a "disappointment" and warning that he'll follow their "future life and will write letters when necessary...
...President Bush will find Vladimir Putin hard to convince on NATO expansion when they meet on Saturday. Putin has insisted that it would be unacceptable to Russia for the Baltic states to join NATO. Of course, that raises the question of what his own plans for the Baltics might be. That's certainly something the Baltic leaders are going to worry about. But Putin can't afford to simply buy the Bush line on NATO expansion, because the Russian president is trying to project the image of a confident, assertive new Russia, ready to stand up for its interests...
...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...
...allies through their own brutality and heavy-handedness and also the guerrillas' ruthless campaign of assassinating anyone who cooperates with the Moscow-backed administration. Guerrillas in Grozny have stepped up daylight attacks on Russian troops. And now they claim they will launch an offensive this summer, perhaps even before Vladimir Putin and George Bush meet later this month-seizing a large population center like Grozny or Gudermes and holding it for a few days to demonstrate Russian impotence. The strategy is simple, says one guerrilla commander: "Undermine their position this year and break them next...