Romanians Pitch Rumsfeld on Base Location
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One day after visiting Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. 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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The US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld talks to US marines in a camp near the Iraqi town of Falluja. Photo: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters.
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Pop by the Golden Blitz pub during happy hour, and you just might run into the president of Romania. He'll be the one huddling with a confidant, hamming for the cameras, or dancing a friend around the room. Traian Basescu &#151; unbuttoned, unorthodox, some say unpresidential &#151; is shaking up the political scene in this former communist country accustomed to colorless, aloof leaders.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  will lobby NATO allies at a meeting in France this week to chip  in more to help train Iraqi security forces, a U.S. official  said on Monday.
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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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BUDAPEST, Jan 31 (IPS) - The new right-wing government of the Czech  Republic, eager to prove its "prestige" as a reliable  ally of the United States, last week started negotiations for the  setting up of a military base in the Czech Republic. It will not  be easy.
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MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIR BASE, Romania -- To entice the US military to make a home here, what better symbolic appeal could the Romanian government make than to rename a street George Washington Boulevard?
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The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Europe, Marine Corps Gen. James Jones, arrived Tuesday in Bulgaria to inspect military sites that could host American troops as part of a Pentagon plan to create new, ...
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates inaugurated a technical support center in Bucharest on Thursday, saying he was confident that Romania's recent accession to the European Union would boost foreign investment and ...Comment
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld likes to say that US forces will fight battles &quot;at a time and place of our choosing,&quot; another way of saying, &quot;seize
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As UFO hype builds, a U.S. military base in the area changes its story.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other NATO defense ministers will meet in this small mountain resort on Wednesday to discuss increased training and contributions toward strengthening Iraqi security ...
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To entice the U.S. military to make a home here, what better symbolic appeal could the Romanian government make than to rename a street here "George Washington Boulevard?"
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U.S. troops could start moving from Cold War-era posts in Germany to new bases in Romania and Bulgaria this year as part of American efforts to create a more mobile overseas force, the top U.S. commander in ...
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will lobby NATO allies at a meeting in France this week to chip in more to help train Iraqi security forces, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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US Army Spc Thomas Wilson, left, speaks to US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, not pictured, during Rumsfeld&#39;s visit to Camp Buehring, 120 km (74 miles) north of Kuwait City, on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004.
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Head of the European Commission Delegation in Romania Jonathan Scheele held a meeting on Tuesday in Bucharest with Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu and highlighted that Romania should seriously prepare ...