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...French charm offensive aimed at repairing the relationship that was once at the heart of Europe? That's the question being asked in Paris, where top government officials are openly talking about their desire to rekindle closer ties with their neighbors across the Rhine. Since the end of World War II the Franco-German relationship has been the motor of European integration, the driving force behind the creation of the European Union and, more recently, the introduction of the euro. But the ardor has cooled in this decade, particularly under Merkel, who has regularly struggled to conceal her irritation with...
...frequency radiation, Brazil admonished him to soften his rhetoric. But after army and police riot squads were criticized at home and abroad this week for their heavy-handed use of clubs, tear gas and mass arrests, Zelaya still argues, "We came here for dialogue and they answer us with war. Since the coup this has become a violently repressive regime." Micheletti supporters, however, suggest that's part of Zelaya's strategy. The only way he can win, they say, is if his demonstrators can prevent the country's Nov. 29 presidential election from taking place, or provoke security forces into...
...President for meeting with us. Before we start with the major issues, I wanted to ask you a personal question. I spent Election Day in your old neighborhood of Nasiabad and I was struck, as I always am, by the numbers of widows and orphans of the Iran - Iraq War. Most Americans don't understand the impact of that war, a million casualties on your country. I wanted to ask you about your own experiences during that war. Did you see combat? Did friends of yours die? What impact did have on your worldview, on the way that you have...
...What about your own personal experience during the war, and the impact on you? Were you involved in combat? I know this has had a tremendous impact on your generation. I was one among the rest of the nation; there was no difference in that respect. Our nation all felt the same way about the war. Everybody disliked the war. I've always disliked wars, throughout history, and the same is true...
...remember correctly, Iran was supportive of the United States' initial reaction in Afghanistan. In fact, you almost went to war with the Taliban government in 1998 if I remember correctly, and you granted us over flight privileges and it was a period if real cooperations between the United States and Iran until the Bush administration changed its mind. How do we get back on course? What specific steps have to be made in order to improve relations between our countries? What steps do we have to make and just to reiterate my editors question, would you be willing to allow...