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THE WORLD THIS WEEK from the COUNCIL ON FOREIGN  RELATIONS
April 15, 2005  


PRE-RELEASE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ARTICLE CITED BY FRIEDMAN IN FRIDAY'S  NYT

In today's New York Times, Thomas Friedman's column  highlights "Down to the Wire" by Thomas Bleha in the May/June issue of  Foreign Affairs:
 

"Thomas Bleha, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer in Japan, has a  fascinating piece in the May-June issue of Foreign Affairs that begins like  this: 'In the first three years of the Bush administration, the United States  dropped from 4th to 13th place in global rankings of broadband Internet usage.  Today, most U.S. homes can access only 'basic' broadband, among the slowest,  most expensive and least reliable in the developed world, and the United  States has fallen even further behind in mobile-phone-based Internet access.  The lag is arguably the result of the Bush administration's failure to make a  priority of developing these networks. In fact, the United States is the only  industrialized state without an explicit national policy for promoting  broadband.'"
 

· Full  text of Bleha's article, "Down to the Wire" <http://www.uptilt.com/c.html?rtr=on&amp;s=c7q,c8cd,oln,6va3,66qe,h6kd,b3gi>
· Full  text of Friedman's column, "Bush Disarms Unilaterally" <http://www.uptilt.com/c.html?rtr=on&amp;s=c7q,c8cd,oln,8s84,v5a,h6kd,b3gi>

 


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THE WORLD THIS WEEK from the COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
April 15, 2005


PRE-RELEASE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ARTICLE CITED BY FRIEDMAN IN FRIDAY'S NYT

In today's New York Times, Thomas Friedman's column highlights "Down to the Wire" by Thomas Bleha in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs:

"Thomas Bleha, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer in Japan, has a fascinating piece in the May-June issue of Foreign Affairs that begins like this: 'In the first three years of the Bush administration, the United States dropped from 4th to 13th place in global rankings of broadband Internet usage. Today, most U.S. homes can access only 'basic' broadband, among the slowest, most expensive and least reliable in the developed world, and the United States has fallen even further behind in mobile-phone-based Internet access. The lag is arguably the result of the Bush administration's failure to make a priority of developing these networks. In fact, the United States is the only industrialized state without an explicit national policy for promoting broadband.'"

· Full text of Bleha's article, "Down to the Wire"
· Full text of Friedman's column, "Bush Disarms Unilaterally"


SHARON: ISRAEL HAS NO PLANS TO ATTACK IRAN'S SUSPECTED NUCLEAR SITES

Judith Kipper, director of the Council's Middle East Forum, says she noticed a "change in tone" during President Bush's April 11 summit with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, with President Bush pressuring Sharon more than usual on the question of Israeli settlements. Interview with cfr.org's Bernard Gwertzman

Henry D. Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, a non-profit group in Washington, says Iran has wanted to develop nuclear weapons since the time of the shah in the 1970s. He says that to control Iran's behavior, the international community should strengthen its interpretation of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and insist that the treaty's ban on nuclear-weapons proliferation means that uranium-enrichment technology can be restricted. The problem, he says, is that this technology can easily be adapted for military purposes. Interview with cfr.org's Bernard Gwertzman

· Q&A on Iran's nuclear program
· Backgrounder on nuclear negotiations with Iran
· Q&A on Middle East peace plans
· Q&A on key Israeli and Palestinian political leaders
· Q&A on the "road map"


AFTER A POST-ELECTION LULL, IRAQI INSURGENCY ATTACKS PICK UP

· Q&A on insurgents' tactics
· David Phillips' op-ed in the Financial Times on Iraq's constitution
· Max Boot's op-ed in the Los Angeles Times on Ahmad Chalabi

BACKGROUND ON THE NEWS

SUDAN: The only way to stop the genocide in Darfur is to dispatch a large and capable military expedition, but no country or organization has shown the will, says Council Fellow Max Boot in the Los Angeles Times.

U.S. POLITICS: Former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman discusses her book It's My Party Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America, and says that "social fundamentalists" are crowding moderates out of the Republican Party. Transcript

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