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...months earlier; last week in Washington, Bruce Riedel, senior director at the National Security Council, revealed that the Pakistani army, without informing its own government, had mobilized its nuclear arsenal at the height of the conflict. Former U.S. President Clinton persuaded then-Pakistani Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif to withdraw his forces, ending what appears to be one of the closest brushes with nuclear war since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis...
RUSSIA The Cold War Is Over. Long Live Star Wars Russia agreed to a dramatic reduction in stockpiles of nuclear weapons, despite its concern that the u.s. intends to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty in order to develop its national missile-defense program, known as Star Wars. After long and contentious negotiations, both the Kremlin and the Pentagon committed to slashing arsenals of active nuclear warheads by around two-thirds. No sooner was the ink dry on that agreement, than NATO and Russia signed up to fight terrorism together, despite Moscow's reservations about the impending NATO...
...European allies for his unilateralist foreign policy, including his snubbing of Moscow. Among the signs of disrespect: the ouster from the U.S. of 50 alleged Russian diplomat-spies in March 2001, the five-month delay before setting a first Bush-Putin meeting, and the threat, since carried out, to withdraw unilaterally from the 1972 U.S.-Soviet Antiballistic Missile Treaty in order to build a national missile-defense system. British Prime Minister Tony Blair personally urged Bush to tone down the rhetoric and engage with Putin. Others, including some veterans of the senior Bush's Administration, lectured the President...
Divestment from Israel became an issue on campus over the last two weeks as 64 Harvard professors have signed a petition calling for the University to withdraw from investments in Israel—estimated at more than $600 million. Meanwhile more than 350 professors have signed a counterpetition asking the University to denounce the call for divestment...
...almost four years later, what many hoped would be a march toward reform has slowed to a shuffle. While the TNI's 38-member faction is scheduled to withdraw from the national parliament by 2004, its political influence is growing again, partly due to the inability of President Megawati Sukarnoputri's government to fix Indonesia's many problems. Its vast business empire?the military owns or has interests in some 250 businesses, including Jakarta department stores, Bali resorts and massive land holdings nationwide, worth an estimated $3 billion?remains intact. And most importantly, say critics, the military has paid little...