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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

lunarchick - 07:55am Apr 16, 2001 EST (#2284 of 2295)
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News, opinnion ... and an ESSAYIST The latest 'letter from America' (not yet on www ) deals with the SpyPlane situation. It says the Chinese Leaders learnt the 'method' regarding expectation of a sincere apology ... from the show trials in Moscow ... and that those who went on to become the leaders of their respective then communist countries were in attendance at the Gary Powell 1960's trial. Cooke managed to dovetail into his essay many of the China_points made on this board.

lunarchick - 08:26am Apr 16, 2001 EST (#2285 of 2295)
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Bush is angry

""George Bush is not pleased with the outcome of the China standoff. He is angry. Bush's comments about China in the White House rose garden yesterday afternoon, shortly after the 24 members of the US spy plane's crew arrived safely back in Hawaii, revealed his mood. He wants respect.

( ... yet Bush displays no respect for other Nations seeking them out as Rogue! )

lunarchick - 08:28am Apr 16, 2001 EST (#2286 of 2295)
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""get even with Beijing soon

Phrase is 'Straight from a B movie Western'

lunarchick - 08:36am Apr 16, 2001 EST (#2287 of 2295)
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"" Milosevic's thuggish son, Marko, fearful of returning home to a lynching party, continues to enjoy Russian hospitality, while the ex-president's brother, Borislav, till recently the Yugoslav ambassador in Moscow, is a regular on radio phone-ins here and a prized party guest for the political and diplomatic elite.

His farewell bash in Moscow as ambassador was attended by a roll-call of the great and the good from the foreign ministry, the parliament, the Kremlin, the Orthodox church hierarchy.

A liberal Moscow newspaper noted this week that the Kremlin had blown it in Belgrade, that with Serbia's realignment towards the West, Moscow was having difficulty accepting its growing loss of influence in the Balkans. Hence the indignation, the frequent sense of feeling affronted. http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,469498,00.html

lunarchick - 08:37am Apr 16, 2001 EST (#2288 of 2295)
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Re above: one would hope that Moscow might move on and develop relations with the west. Empires come and go. Moscow has the task of creating a strong and viable country.

lunarchick - 08:58am Apr 16, 2001 EST (#2289 of 2295)
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Dame Stella's manuscript will be subjected to final vetting by Sir Richard Wilson, the cabinet secretary, and possibly also by the home secretary, Jack Straw, who is responsible for MI5.

She has said she will invoke the Human Rights Act, enshrining the right to freedom of expression, if they try to block her memoirs.

Michael Mates, a Conservative member of the Commons intelligence and security committee, described Dame Stella's decision to go ahead as "totally disgraceful".

He said he did not expect the book to endanger MI5 operations, but believed it would seriously undermine the principle of secrecy binding former agents such as David Shayler, who facing a trial for alleged breaches of the Official Secrets Act. http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,468796,00.html

lunarchick - 09:22am Apr 16, 2001 EST (#2290 of 2295)
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'the Human Rights Act'

I'll make the assumption that this act is an EC act. If so, then those countries joining the EC, or moving towards the standards of the EC, will become aware that 'secrets' pull in a huge readership .... that's 'Diffusion Theory' !

lunarchick - 09:50am Apr 16, 2001 EST (#2291 of 2295)
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"" Editing involves fine judgment, particularly as the paper has so many sections today serving possibly quite different kinds of readership. But fine judgments mean good editing, blanket judgments mean bad editing. http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/styleguide/article/0,5817,181311,00.html

The Guardian says 'fine judgements mean good editing' Seems to be a reflection on what Showalter might label complexity, the real world is complex.

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