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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (25516)	4/16/2002 5:44:16 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) of 281500

UPI "Inside" report Monday's trip of Secretary of State Colin Powell to Beirut and Damascus was far from certain last week, when all the signs were that a full-scale war was close to breaking out on Israel's northern frontier -- despite the little-reported warning phone call from U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to Syrian President Bashar Assad. The Powell trip looked even less likely when State Department aides reported who was preceding Powell to the Syrian capital, Damascus -- Iraq's deputy president, Taha Yassir Ramadan, and Iranian Foreign Minister Kemal Kharazi. Then came the surprise. Iran's Kharazi called on the Hezbollah guerillas, who depend on Iran for arms and funds, to stop the rocket bombardment and back off, citing the need "to avoid giving Israel a pretext for widening the circle of its war." Who gets the credit? Step forward Russian President Vladimir Putin, who sent personal "cool it" messages to Syria's President Assad and Iran's President Mohammed Khatami -- piling up more personal brownie points with U.S. President George Bush ahead of their summit in Moscow next month. upi.com

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