GLW issue 453, published 2001-06-27.

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RUSSIA: Bush and Putin find a common language

BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY The times are past when the US and Russian presidents greeted one another simply as "Boris" and "Bill". Boris Yeltsin is no longer in the Kremlin, and Bill Clinton has left the White House. The new administrations in both

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BY PIP HINMAN The federal government is secretly trying to return to the widely discredited "special relationship" with the Indonesian government, developed by both Labor and Liberal parties during the 32-year reign of Suharto. And it is doing it
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