Rumsfeld in Charm Offensive in 'Old Europe'
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NICE, France  - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  sought to build bridges with "old Europe" on Thursday, fondly  recalling a vacation on the French Riviera and extolling the  enduring importance of transatlantic ties.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld struck a conciliatory tone at a European security conference Saturday, saying the American-European alliance could withstand its current differences and calling for unified efforts to defeat terrorism and weapons proliferation.
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US troops put the Pentagon on the defensive, challenging Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld over their safety in Iraq, as Secretary of State Colin Powell urged Europe to look beyond differences over last year's invasion.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, concluding a visit to the Balkan region Friday, voiced concern to his Russian counterpart about growing tensions between Moscow and Georgia.
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Europe is in a serious tug of war situation. On one side America wants it in its age-old traditional mode of preserving Western Union of Nations through NATO.
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Romanian officials have taken US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on an inspection tour of a Black Sea military base which could become part of the Pentagon&#39;s plans for more flexible deployments.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - As he prepared to face a fresh rift among NATO allies over Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday urged Europe to look beyond its differences with Washington over last year&#39;s invasion and to embrace bolder action for
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The war between "Old Europe" and America is over, but the old friendship, sonorously invoked for decades, is history, too.
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U.S. presidential contender John Kerry will have won yet more admirers in Europe with his pledge during a campaign debate to restore alliances damaged by the transatlantic split over the Iraq war.
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After a parade of military regalia and a 19-gun salute that echoed across the Potomac, Donald H. Rumsfeld stepped down yesterday as secretary of defense, delivering a warning to those who contemplate "graceful exits from the agonies and . . . ugliness of combat."
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UNTIL now, the man in charge of the Iraq war has brushed aside the most astonishing blunders. With breathtaking glibness, Donald Rumsfeld breezes through disasters that make Geoff Hoon look like a consummate politician in comparison.
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The questions from the troops for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld were considerably more friendly on his Christmas Eve visit to Iraq than they were on his previous trip to the region a couple of weeks ago.
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He sent troops to Iraq against stiff opposition in Paris and Berlin, rejected the Euro as fellow leaders embraced economic harmony and angered neighbors by playing hardball over the European Union budget.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell urged Europeans on Wednesday to put aside their differences with the United States over the Iraq war, arguing that Americans and Europeans have common values and face similar threats that should outweigh the controversies of recent years.
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CONSTANTA, Romania  - One day after visiting Iraq, U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld toured a spruced-up military base here Monday and heard a Romanian government sales pitch for making it a new American outpost within easy reach of potential hot spots in the Middle East and Central Asia.
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Some of America's staunchest allies &#151; the former communist countries of "New Europe" &#151; are gaining influence in the European Union, and experts say their growing voice could mean cozier trans-Atlantic ties.
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