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...Administration calls the Hanssen case a convenient excuse to clean out a growing nest of Russian spies in the U.S. As the number of agents crept back to cold war levels?up 40% since 1995, to 160?the FBI complained of the burden on its counterintelligence teams and its budget. The CIA said tossing out Moscow's agents would only mean the loss of U.S. assets in Russia. Clinton tried to soft-talk Moscow into cutting back but failed; the incoming Bush team was eager...
Most analysts don't think the expulsions will cause long-term damage to U.S.-Russian relations. They're a routine part of the spy game and quickly fade away. But it's one more in a list of "unfriendly" disagreements between Washington and Moscow these days. There have been frequent rhetorical clashes over Moscow's decision to renew arms sales to Tehran, Washington's insistence it will go ahead with missile-defense systems, Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to drum up global resistance to the shield. The Russians were incensed by an interview in which Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...Losers PIN CHAKKAPHAK U.K. court approves Thai financier's extradition. That whole Asian financial crisis? His fault BANGARU LAXMAN Still time for med school. Prez of India's ruling party caught on camera accepting bribes MIR Russian space station crashing below the 2000 level?no, wait, that's the NASDAQ Verbatim...
...Saudi commanders stormed a Russian airliner hijacked by Chechen rebels, freeing more than 100 passengers and crew. Saudi authorities said three people were killed in the rescue operation, which was authorized after hijackers threatened to blow up the plane. The Interior Ministry said a flight attendant was stabbed to death by the hijackers during the siege. Gunfire killed a hijacker and a Turkish passenger. Three hijackers seized control of the Moscow-bound Tuplov 154 jet as it left Istanbul airport, issuing a list of demands including an end to Russia's military campaign in Chechnya. The Saudis said they decided...
...over the wallet, and never before has so much broad-based American wealth been created and destroyed in so abrupt a lurch. The Wall Street contention is simple: These are again troubled global times, and the I-feel-rich American consumers who supported the U.S. economy through the Asian, Russian and hedge-fund tremors are on the brink of feeling very poor, and are acting accordingly...