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...error occurred while processing this directive]International replacements are proving to be something of a problem: Thus far, the U.S. has managed to sign up two contingents, one comprising some 9,200 soldiers led by Poland and composed of smallish detachments from Ukraine, Bulgaria, Hungary, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Romania, Mongolia, Fiji, the Dominican Republic and others. Britain will lead a second detachment composed of Western European NATO members such as Italy and the Netherlands. The operative word is small: While Spain is offering 1,300 troops and Italy up to 3,000, Lithuania will send 43, the former Yugoslav...
When he went to Paris as an envoy during the Revolution, Franklin proved himself a master of the diplomatic doctrine of realism by playing an adroit balance-of-power game between France, Spain, the Netherlands and later Britain. In a memo he wrote to the wily French Foreign Minister Vergennes, whose realist outlook was summarized by his maxim that "the influence of every power is measured by the opinion one has of its intrinsic force," Franklin emphasized the cold calculation of national interests that he knew the minister would appreciate. If France and her ally Spain joined the American cause...
...support for a plan to interdict North Korean arms shipments in the air and on the high seas. The controversial plan was first aired during a mid-June meeting in Madrid between representatives of 11 countries: the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain. North Korea's arms sales "finance their nuclear weapons program," says Bolton. "This is not money that goes to the starving people of North Korea...
...billion in subsidies to their railroads in 2001 alone - a new network of high-speed train lines is finally taking shape in Western Europe. France has been the most aggressive to date: its tgv currently accounts for more than half of Europe's high-speed total. But Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands are also busy assembling a comprehensive high-speed network that will be fully in place by the end of the decade, enabling fast connections from Paris to Frankfurt or Amsterdam to Barcelona and beyond. "There's not been as much money going into the rail industry...
...number of private rail operators. They include IKEA, the big furniture company, which has set up its own rail operations between Sweden and its biggest market, Germany. But elsewhere, the official reaction to liberalization is far more skeptical. No private operators have yet been granted licenses in France or Spain, even though both nations have implemented legislation that should technically allow for it. In Germany, where some private operators have been allowed, DB's ceo, former aerospace executive Hartmut Mehdorn, is cutting staff and spiffing up stations to knock the railroad into shape before a planned public offering...