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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans
for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be
limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI
all over again?
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lunarchick
- 09:40pm Jul 5, 2001 EST (#6653
of 6661)
lunarchick@www.com
> Bush/Putin: 'Russian leader, far from being
equally impressed by America's rookie president, has decided, not
to put too fine a point on it, that he is there for the taking. http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,517544,00.html
.... Mr Bush has an awful lot to learn about international
leadership.
> Bush/Green http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,517166,00.html
The main areas of concern are President Bush's policies on the
environment, energy, and defence. All three issues have an obvious
international aspect. ... Putin was anything but candid. In fact,
he ran rings round the US leader ... National missile defence:
President Bush raised this issue, perhaps the top international
priority for his administration, with a view to persuading Russia
to drop its objections and even cooperate on the new "Star Wars"
systems. Mr Putin reserved his position. But once Mr Bush had gone
home, he called in US correspondents and warned that if Washington
went ahead without agreement, Russia might consider all arms
control treaties negotiated in the past 30 or so years to be null
and void. And it might move to equip its strategic nuclear
missiles with currently banned multiple warheads.
> Bush/FBI - new head http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,517599,00.html
lunarchick
- 09:51pm Jul 5, 2001 EST (#6654
of 6661)
lunarchick@www.com
Santa .. with or without the clothes was a toy maker. The emperor
with the clothes was a Royalist, without them, a Realist!
lunarchick
- 09:57pm Jul 5, 2001 EST (#6655
of 6661)
lunarchick@www.com
Proactive? A must read :
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,516580,00.html
A jogger came past. "Ma'am, do you know you are being invaded?"
she was asked. She didn't. We wander around in the dawn mists.
Nice place, Menwith Hill, even if it appears on no official maps.
Mostly it is very ordinary
lunarchick
- 10:11pm Jul 5, 2001 EST (#6656
of 6661)
lunarchick@www.com
...... George Bush's missile defence schemes,
by contrast, draw conscience and politicstogether to demand a
statement about the modern world. Here the argument has only just
begun. NMD's presumptions about the post-cold-war world challenge
the European left to think seriously.
Mr Bush ended his recent visit apparently thinking
he had it licked. Such was the briefing from spokesmen and
spinners, especially in Washington and London. Europe, we were led
to believe, agreed that there were missile threats from rogue
states, and did not fundamentally oppose the US in its efforts to
counteract them. The phrase "moral imperative" was even attributed
to one European power, believed to be not a million miles from
Madrid. The strategists, both political and military, of the
Republican right sustain the assertion that, come what may, NMD is
irreversible, will go ahead and - a more recent promise - will be
deployed whether or not it has been proved to work.
The imperative has become political. "It is a
simple question," the June 9 Washington Post quoted a Pentagon
official as saying. "Is something better than nothing? The
president and the secretary for defence have made it pretty clear
that some missile defence in the near term is in fact better than
nothing." The definition of near term appears to be set just
before the end of Bush's first term as president. .... http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,517077,00.html
lunarchick
- 10:25pm Jul 5, 2001 EST (#6657
of 6661)
lunarchick@www.com
A timeline (re Gas company - read from bottom to
top) .. Stroitransgaz, a company which the Russian gas giant
admitted for the first time was partly owned by its own executives
or their families ... http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?id=010704014727&query=Putin
lunarchick
- 10:42pm Jul 5, 2001 EST (#6658
of 6661)
lunarchick@www.com
Russia:Chechnya
/ France .... The raid added fresh tension to French attempts
to patch up diplomatic relations with Russia, which have been
marred during the premiership and presidency of Vladimir Putin by
criticism of the war in the breakaway republic of Chechnya. In
response to questions on the subject yesterday, Mr Chirac repeated
long-standing calls for a political solution in Chechnya
Chechnya, but offered no fresh initiatives or criticism of
Russia's handling of the crisis as France had in the past. .... http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?id=010703001233&query=Putin
lunarchick
- 10:47pm Jul 5, 2001 EST (#6659
of 6661)
lunarchick@www.com
Flag: Russia
Tchetchenie
France
lunarchick
- 10:53pm Jul 5, 2001 EST (#6660
of 6661)
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France says the dispute needs political solution:
http://www.idis.com/ChouOnline/chechnya.html
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