Word: maintainence
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...British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was due to visit Camp David at the end of the month. On Aug. 26, in Crawford, Texas, Bush held a meeting of the National Security Council over a secure videoconference system. Powell argued that taking the Iraq issue to the U.N. would maintain international support and close off no options. Reluctantly, Cheney and Rumsfeld agreed. Bush would make the case at the U.N. in September, challenging the Security Council to enforce its resolutions on Iraqi disarmament. But Cheney pushed back. Without informing Powell, he decided that his speech to the V.F.W. convention...
...Gulf War I, and avoided the bitter breaches between old friends that have characterized the past few months. To be sure, mistakes--as politicians say--were made; American diplomacy was curiously lacking in the weeks after adoption of Resolution 1441, when it might have been possible to maintain the unity that was demonstrated when the resolution passed the Security Council...
...American tanks in Iraq last week were Russian-made Cornets, U.S. officials contend. And they say a Moscow-based company supplied the GPS-jamming equipment that Iraq deployed against allied forces, and which the U.S. military destroyed. The Americans say the same company also sent personnel to Iraq to maintain the equipment and instruct Iraqis on how to use it. Both the Russian government and the company alleged to have supplied the equipment denied any sale had taken place. Arms sales are a crucial source of tax revenue, bringing the Russian government $3 billion each year. Vote Early and Often...
...hide their identity. Half a dozen Special Forces men drove pickups into the yard, parking next to me. All wore combat gear, one a night-vision device on his helmet. They settled into the darkest corner of the courtyard and spoke quietly on satphones, trying to maintain a low profile...
...would be tempting to blame global sanctions for this poverty, but in fact, the Bedouins wouldn't be much affected by sanctions. They are a self-contained economic unit, and throughout history have managed to maintain a substantial wealth in livestock. A more plausible explanation for the poverty is that Saddam's totalitarian government is attempting to run a socialist economic model: there is no reason, after all, for people to accumulate wealth if Saddam's government is going to take everything from them...