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DIED. LEON URIS, 78, robust novelist of war's glories and ravages; in Shelter Island, N.Y. After serving as a Marine on Guadalcanal, he scored with best sellers set on the front lines of World War II (Battle Cry), the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (Mila 18), Israel (Exodus) and Palestine (The Haj). He also wrote his own epitaph; his tombstone will read: AMERICAN SOLDIER. JEWISH WRITER...
...became the second Finance Minister to quit during Miller's troubled 20-month administration. Kolodko warned that Hausner would destroy attempts to control deficits - jeopardizing euro membership. Some analysts, already spooked by Poland's shortfalls, agreed. "It's a mixed blessing," says Jos Verbeek, a World Bank economist in Warsaw, who hopes economic policy will at least be more coordinated. But Kolodko was controversial, and many business leaders are glad he's gone. "The environment in which we've been operating has been exceptionally hostile," says Henryka Bochniarz, president of the Polish Confederation of Private Employers...
...casus belli, his leadership will be suspect. Despite the paltry results so far of the search for Iraq's banned weapons, he continues to insist that his prewar WMD claims will be vindicated. "You are just going to have to have a little bit of patience," he said in Warsaw last week. "I have absolutely no doubt at all that evidence will be found...
...picture of comity as they formally signed accession treaties with 10 new members. "There was no crying, no fighting and no hand thumping," marveled European Commission President Romano Prodi. Chirac avoided any echoes of the brusque treatment he meted out in February toward the new members from the former Warsaw Pact. He also had a 25-minute t?te-?-t?te with Tony Blair. Apart from the still touchy and inchoate issue of the E.U.'s foreign and defense policy, the two have some common ground in pushing for an end to the rotating six-month presidency of the Union, which...
...Charles de Gaulle who first charted this course. He tried to break away from the U.S. by, for example, ordering American troops out of France and withdrawing from the military structure of NATO. But during the cold war this was not realistic. The Soviet threat loomed. Today, with the Warsaw Pact dead, France can safely make its reach for grandeur...