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To: bentway who wrote (451058)	1/26/2009 5:06:17 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574275

owned a Fiat 850 Spyder and loved it. I worked on it all the time, though. Isn't that the problem with fiats....they always break down.

To: bentway who wrote (451058)	1/26/2009 5:08:04 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574275

Obama Administration To Engage In "Direct Diplomacy" With Iran By JOHN HEILPRIN \| January 26, 2009 02:43 PM EST \| United Nations — President Barack Obama's administration will engage in "direct diplomacy" with Iran, the newly installed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Monday. Not since before the 1979 Iranian revolution are U.S. officials believed to have conducted wide-ranging direct diplomacy with Iranian officials. But U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice warned that Iran must meet U.N. Security Council demands to suspend uranium enrichment before any talks on its nuclear program. "The dialogue and diplomacy must go hand in hand with a very firm message from the United States and the international community that Iran needs to meet its obligations as defined by the Security Council. And its continuing refusal to do so will only cause pressure to increase," she told reporters during a brief question-and-answer session. Her comments, reflecting Obama's signals for improved relations with America's foes after eight years under President George W. Bush, came shortly after meeting with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on her first day in her new job. Iran still considers the U.S. the "Great Satan," but a day after Obama was sworn in, said it was "ready for new approaches by the United States." Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said his country would study the idea of allowing the U.S. to open a diplomatic office in Tehran, the first since 1979. Rice said the U.S. remains "deeply concerned about the threat that Iran's nuclear program poses to the region, indeed to the United States and the entire international community." "We look forward to engaging in vigorous diplomacy that includes direct diplomacy with Iran, as well as continued collaboration and partnership" with the other four permanent members of the Security Council _ Britain, China, France and Russia _ plus Germany, Rice said. "And we will look at what is necessary and appropriate with respect to maintaining pressure toward that goal of ending Iran's nuclear program," she said. read more........... huffingtonpost.com