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...even agree on what issues to disagree on. Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Al-Sharaa on Monday did accomplish the rather difficult feat of completing the first day of talks hosted by President Clinton in Shepherdstown, West Virginia without actually meeting face to face. Although the U.S. has imposed a news blackout to create a more conducive environment for a week of diplomacy, State Department spokesman James Rubin said Monday that the two sides had not yet agreed on the agenda for the talks. Syria wants to begin with territorial issues; Israel wants the first item...
...corruption and repression of the Tudjman era, and his reluctance to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal on Balkan war crimes, earned Croatia pariah status in Europe. "Although the opposition has vowed to work with the Hague Tribunal, don't expect a rush to hand over war crimes suspects," says Anastasijevic. "A lot of current military and police officers are potentially implicated in war crimes, and the new government can't afford to put these people in a corner." Still, the result will have a positive effect on the Balkan regional dynamic. "The most immediate change may occur in Bosnia, where...
...Putin?s years in the KGB, followed by his association with some of the key reformers in the post-communist period raise more questions than they answer. "Although some now say Putin was involved in economic espionage in Western Europe, others say he was a low level political commissar type keeping an eye on the loyalty of Soviet staff," says Meier. "Then there?s a big question mark over his mission in St. Petersburg - whether he, as he claims, had turned into a liberal democrat determined to push the reform program, or had been sent there to keep...
...Although the early phases of the campaign - in which Russian losses were minimal due to a heavy-bombardment strategy - earned then-prime minister Putin unprecedented popularity for a neophyte government official, fierce Chechen resistance has slowed Moscow's momentum and raised the specter of heavy Russian casualties. That could pose a problem for Putin's bid to win the presidency in elections that have been brought forward to March by Boris Yeltsin's resignation. "Putin's people know that as much as the Chechnya campaign has sent his popularity rocketing among Russian voters, it could fall just as quickly...
...campaign to stampede us all toward the scales. The Jenny Craig weight-reduction program has just launched a series of commercials featuring Monica Lewinsky. They compete with an already existing Weight Watchers campaign that features Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. Weight-reduction programs seem to use only female spokescelebrities, although it presumably wouldn't be that difficult to find a male who is famous, out of work, in need of a little slimming and known for yielding to temptation now and then even in nonalimentary matters. Helmut Kohl comes to mind. In the "before" shots, Chancellor Kohl could be shown...