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UNilateral Moves

Washington Draws up a Hit List at the United Nations.

By Ian Williams

Without the fanfare that accompanied the campaign in the mountains of Afghanistan, the Bush administration has quietly begun a long march through multilateral institutions. At the United Nations and elsewhere, Washington has mounted a campaign to purge international civil servants judged to be out of step with the war on terrorism and the administration’s insistence on having the last word in… return to article

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