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...tactics, and how to "monitor the elections so that they could fight fraud." News of Otpor's interest in the Ukraine vote - and the fact that the group received funding from the U.S. government as well as dozens of other private and non-American donors - drew alarmed speculation on Russian state TV that the group is an American tool agitating for regime change "on the doorstep of Russia...
...jumped headlong into the quagmire: the Parliament passed a series of non-binding resolutions declaring the election invalid, outgoing President Leonid Kuchma has endorsed a new vote, and the Supreme Court this week is hearing Yushchenko’s challenges. The international community, too, is weighing in, with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government endorsing the election results and several diplomats from the European Union expressing implicit support for the Western-leaning Yushchenko...
...curry favor with specific companies and individuals--in the hope that foreign governments would have the U.N. sanctions revoked. According to a September CIA report, the biggest beneficiaries of those vouchers were businesspeople from France, Russia and China, including a former French Interior Minister and members of the Russian parliament. The most serious charge is that Benon Sevan, the U.N. administrator from Cyprus who managed the $64 billion oil-for-food program, illegally received more than 7 million bbl. of oil, although Sevan has denied doing so. Investigators accuse Banque Nationale de Paris, where the U.N. held the money...
...thrown away after a few wearings ... A pocket-size portable record player. Put on sale by Emerson, the Wondergram plays all sizes of LP records without a turntable, is powered by four flashlight batteries, [and] weighs less than 2 lbs. ... A language- translating computer. Built by IBM, it translates Russian into English. Its first assignment: translating each day's Pravda for the Air Force. It works at a rate of 1,800 words per minute, turns out rough but readable English ... The pace of research is such that man's next great discovery may come next month, next week...
...originally rebuffed attempts by Russian President Vladimir Putin to build relations with the Administration but then accepted him as an ally after Bush famously said he had looked into Putin's soul. When King Abdullah of Jordan first proposed in the summer of 2002 that Bush launch a road map to peace for the Arab-Israeli conflict, Rice tried to block it but later became a fervent backer. In 2000 she scorned the use of U.S. troops for nation building, but has undertaken monumental military reconstruction projects in Afghanistan and Iraq. She led the hard-liners' charge to unilaterally abrogate...