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To: FaultLine who wrote (138424)	6/30/2004 1:23:01 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hooray for Colinisation Powell. Now he's waving a stick and carrot in Sudan to stop the murderous mess. nytimes.com <Powell to Press Sudan to Ease the Way for Aid in Darfur By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS Published: June 30, 2004 Agence France-Presse-Getty Images The Sudanese foreign minister, Mustafa Osman Ismail, right, greeted Secretary of State Colin L. Powell after Mr. Powell arrived in Khartoum. The secretary's visit is focused on the ravaged Darfur region in the west. KHARTOUM, Sudan, June 29 - Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said Tuesday that he would press Sudanese officials to allow international relief workers to speed up their deliveries to displaced people in the country's western Darfur region, noting that already "thousands of people have been consigned to their deaths" there. Mr. Powell, who spoke with reporters while traveling here from Istanbul, where he attended the NATO summit meeting, said he would deliver a blunt message in Khartoum that continued resistance by officials of the East African nation would jeopardize American-assisted negotiations to bring peace in a separate conflict in the south. "I hope to give them a very direct message about how the United States and the international community see the horrific situation that exists in Darfur," Mr. Powell said. "We need to see action promptly because people are dying, and the death rate is going to go up significantly over the next several months." The United States Agency for International Development estimates that as many as 300,000 people are likely to die by the end of the year in Darfur. The number could be even higher, the agency says, with refugees weakened by hunger, disease and the trauma of seeing their villages destroyed in the conflict that arose last year between government-backed militias and two rebel groups. On Tuesday night, Mr. Powell met briefly with President Omar Hassan Ahmed el-Bashir and Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail. Mr. Powell and his counterpart emerged from the meeting saying the talks were positive, although Mr. Ismail, as he has in the past, denied that the situation was as dire as the Americans and others have depicted. "We admit there is a problem," Mr. Ismail said at a news conference. But, he added, "There is no famine. There is no epidemic." ...continued...> Ah, the glories of Empire. Mqurice

To: FaultLine who wrote (138424)	7/1/2004 1:14:46 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi FaultLine; Re: "has red hair and is bald in the middle" I just hope it's not anything like "dirty Sanchez", which was the name of a bar in the recent movie Dodgeball. -- Carl