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H1 American Interest - Democracies of the World, Unite ivo daalder & james lindsay - The Bush Administration and its critics offer, respectively, 19th- and 20th-century foreign policies for a 21st-century world. But if we want to foster democracy... more»

Foreign Policy The List: Options for Iraq

Annan’s Farewell Speech More>>

DAVID BROOKS After the Fall 1:54 PM (repeat)

SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH EHUD OLMERT Israel Doesn't Rule out Military Strike on Iran

NYT Time to Offshore Our Troops By EUGENE GHOLZ, DARYL G. PRESS and BENJAMIN VALENTINO America will best serve its interests in the Persian Gulf by withdrawing its ground-based military forces not only from Iraq, but from the entire region.

Washington Post Experts Advise President Not to Reduce Troops

Bush Looks Past Study Group By Robin Wright

Russia's Widening Web of Spies Former KGB agents and Putin allies gain elite status in nation's political and business circles.

WP Lebanon's Shiites Grapple With New Feeling of Power by Anthony Shadid (repeat)

Dan Drezner Any other grand strategies out there... anyone?

Reprisal and hot pursuit —Thomas C. Schelling

Morgan Stanley Global Transitions

The New Hegemon by Vali Nasr in The New Republic, Dec, 18, 2006. A review of three recent books about Iran.

Guardian How Gulf states could start new nuclear race Iran's nuclear programmes, whether sinister or not, could hasten the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction across the Middle East, writes Simon Tisdall.

Israel, Palestine, peace and apartheid Jimmy Carter: Americans need to know the facts about the abominable oppression of the Palestinians.

Ignacio Ramonet on the Palestinian Labyrinth.

The Schoolchildren Slayings in Gaza: Personalizing the Violence Stratfor

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Implications for U.S. Interests CRS

Central Asia: Regional Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests CRS

FT REPORT - CHINA: Unstoppable yet unsustainable

Ha’aretz - Olmert: Iran seeking to develop nuclear bomb, 'like America, France and Israel'

EurasiaNet Pivotal Election Can Change the Islamic Republic’s Course

Le Monde Diplomatique Iran’s new power balance

BBC Ready or not?
An assessment of the state of Iraq's army and police forces

Daily Star Editorial Not much to rejoice about in Baghdad-Damascus ties

State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future by the The Worldwatch Institute.

Financial Times COMMENT: Europe must do more to embrace its neighbours The EU has used the accession process as its main method to promote economic and political reform in its neighbourhood. But now it needs new methods, writes Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform.

The Times By 2040: an Arctic with no ice? American researchers, assessing the impact of carbon emissions on the climate, have calculated the Arctic's late summer will be ice-free by 2040

Tom Barnett The shifting global oil markets

REPORT: USA SPIED ON DIANA; HUNDREDS OF SECRET FILES; PHONE TAPPED NIGHT OF DEATH...

H2 FT EU freezes parts of Turkish accession talks European Union foreign ministers decided to put large parts of Turkey’s membership talks on hold.

OBSERVER: A debate over Turkey spills into view

IHT A sharp reprimand to Turkey from EU

Washington Post Western Businesses Embrace Turkey as E.U.'s Resistance Grows

Morgan Stanley Turkey The Real Stake of Turkey-EU Negotiations

RFE/RL A Country Astride Two Worlds Although most of it lies in Asia, many observers say Europe is incomplete without Turkey

Guardian Turkey deal set to avoid EU summit row EU approved a plan to punish Ankara over its handling of its membership talks but a major row appeared lesss likely

IndependentEU freezes talks on Turkey membership

Top Swedish official backs Turkey for EU

Progress of Turkey's bid to join the EU

BBC Frozen talks
Turkey's EU membership bid stalls but is not derailed

Kürdistanî Partiler Rapora tepkili, Peter Galbraith: Kürdler özel bir referandumla bağımsızlık ilan etmeli

Baker-Raporu ve Bölgesel Gerçekler

Washington Times Post-Saddam Iraq By Tulin Daloglu No news not good news from Baker report

KKTC’ye izolasyonlar kalkıyor

Notes from Yerevan about time and Cyprus Sylvia Tiryaki

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media 12 Aralık 2006 Basın Özeti

Cüneyt Ülsever Güneydoğu ve Hizbullah

Özdemir İnce Sorun çözme yöntemleri

Kurds reject Iraq report
Asia Times

BBC Holiday in Iraq?
Head north, and you might find it is not as outlandish as it sounds

Talabani'nin çıkışına açıklama

Mete Çubukçu: Dağ fare mi doğurdu?

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Türkiye'den Suriye'ye "yerel demokrasi" ihracı

Nasuhi Güngör ABD, İran ve terazinin boş kefesi

Mehmet Canıtatlı Suriye ile bir adım daha

Google News Greece - Cyprus

Karabağ'da Bakü'yü kızdıran referandum

Güven 2006 tatbikatı başlıyor

TSK'ya helikopter ihalesi bugün

İngiliz Genelkurmayı'ndan al dersi

’Müslüman Sol’ parti kuruyorlar

Genelkurmay'a Köşk için mektup göndermek, kimsenin haddi değil

Ukrainian Ambassador: We're ready to participate in space, military tank programs of Turkey

[Yorum -Herkül Millas] Duyarlılık mı, bilek güreşi mi?

Alevi Federasyonu 'model' önerdi

Cengiz Çandar Tüm yazıları İstanbul: Dünyanın “vazgeçilmez edebiyat toprağı”...

Orhan Pamuk ve aydınlar Hasan Celal Güzel

Nuray Mert - Taşranın Nobel alması

Fikret BİLA Orhan Pamuk'un yazarlığı

Nobel ve Türkiye Murat Belge

Pamuk'a çok şey borçluyuz ADALET AĞAOĞLU

Ferhat Boratav Halkın Nobel'i

Gila Benmayor Ankara’nın liman hamlesi öncesi KKTC de Ercan hamlesi yapmış

Erdal Sağlam AB ve Kıbrıs tartışmasında konuşulmayanlar

Ömer Lütfi Mete

Ahmet Kekeç Sivil gazeteciye bak!

Gülay Göktürk Devlet politikaları

Elçi asks for rights for Kurds, same as ‘what Turkey asks for Turkish Cypriots’

Iraqi Kurds seek damage control after report

Summer camp to build bridges between Diaspora and Kurdistan youth
Kurdistan Regional Government

H3 Sekiz başlık askıya alındı AB treni yola devam ediyor

Ankara, Brüksel'in kararını inceliyor

Karar ne anlama geliyor?

PKK'yla mücadele takvime bağlandı

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ Bir siyasi krizin anatomisi

Bilal Çetin Başbakan Genekurmay Başkanı’na neden kırıldı?

Yönetim krizi İsmet Berkan Devlet yönetmek, sadece siyasetle, fikirlerle yapılan bir iş değil. İşin bir de, 'iş idaresi' kısmı var. Devlet gibi büyük organizasyonları yönetmek, gerçekten çok büyük iş idaresi bilgisi ve birikimi gerektiren bir şey.

8 başlıkta kısmi askı

Devlette 'bilgi' çatlağı!

Gül: Büyükanıt üzüntüsünü iletti

Taha AKYOL Diplomasi oyunları

Enis Berberoğlu Kara Delik AB’yi yutuyor

Yalçın Doğan Askıya asıl alınan Dışişleri

Kıbrıslılar ne diyor?
Mehmet Ali Talat BBC Türkçe'nin sorularını yanıtladı

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası

Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri - Dış Basında Güncel Türkiye Bülteni

Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700

Dış Basında Türkiye Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey Turquie Türkei TurcoPundit

Sabah Ankara'da bir mürit general ABD'nin Türkiye'deki en üst askeri yetkilisi general Sutton, Pentagon'daki üniformalı tarikatın üyesi çıktı. ABD ordusunda "irticacı" general skandalı patladı. 3'ü general 7 subayın, Hıristiyan Elçiliği adlı Evangelist tarikatın tanıtımını yapan filmde üniformalarıyla din propagandası yaptığı ortaya çıktı.

Batı'nın Batı'ya bakışı Gündüz Aktan

Milliyet AB stratejik bir cüce midir?

David Judson Evrensel değerlerin fikir babası Kant AB'nin çifte standardına ne derdi

M. Ali BİRAND Türkiye, kendi hamlesini çelmeliyor

Ekrem Dumanlı AB'nin vizyonu buysa

İlter Türkmen Lüzumsuz bir gerginlik

Baykal, Erdoğan'a sert çıktı: Küstahlık Murat Yetkin

Merkel, Ankara'nın AB'ye girişine karşıtlığı bırakmalı RICHARD MENG

Türkiye cezalandırılmayı hak etmiyor -

Hasan CEMAL AB'de yola devam!

Metin MÜNİR Kıbrıs'ta yeni çözüm formülü düşünme zamanı

Derya SAZAK Kıbrıs

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Asist

Serpil YILMAZ AB'nin seçimi: Türkiye bölgede 'rol model'

İsmail Küçükkaya Kriz çıkaranlar şimdi...

Mümtazer Türköne Kıbrıs hamlesi ve demokrasimiz

[Yorum - Prof. Dr. Angelo Santagostino] Türkiye satranç masasında kalmalı

Cengiz Çandar From Stockholm to Brussels: The test facing the EU with Orhan Pamuk's Turkey

Taha Kıvanç

TAHA KIVANÇ Yok devenin başı: Erke ve cemaat ilişkisi

Fehmi Koru

NAZLI ILICAK Kim, kime karşı sorumlu?

Nuh Gönültaş Cumhurbaşkanı- Genelkurmay takımından kendi kalelerine altın gol

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Demirel: Yönetim hatası

ERDAL ŞAFAK Adanın direkleri

EU woes Doğu Ergil

Yusuf KANLI More to come from Ankara

Merkez'in faiz freni ekonomiyi soğuttu, ufukta durgunluk yok

Ercan Kumcu Büyümedeki düşüş sert oluyor

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM Ekonomi durmuş cari açık durmamış

2007'ye damgasını basacak gelişme
Mahfi Eğilmez

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Bankacılığın idam fermanını mı imzalamışlardı?

Yiğit Bulut Neydi bu gizli anlaşmanın hükümleri

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Ekonomide vites küçülüyor, ama sorunlar sürüyor

Güngör URAS Özel tüketim artışı, üretim artışının üzerinde

Asaf Savaş Akat Üçüncü çeyrekte milli gelir

Doların gidişi ve 2007 Korkmaz İlkorur

Gazi Erçel Kararı bekleyen piyasalar

OKAN MÜDERRİSOĞLU Piyasada 'siyasi alarm'

3 bids expected for German TV broadcaster

H4 New York Times nytcolumns

H5 Washington Post Experts Advise President Not to Reduce Troops President Looking Beyond Study Group's Plan

Bush Looks Past Study Group By Robin Wright

Russia's Widening Web of Spies Former KGB agents and Putin allies gain elite status in nation's political and business circles.

Siniora Stands Fast By David Ignatius,

Foreign Service Hiring Gets a Re-Exam Shorter Test, Resume Could Speed Process

U.S. Aims to Create Jobs in Iraq Pentagon hopes to restore nearly 200 state-owned factories abandoned after 2003's U.S.-led invasion

Editorial A Dictator's Double Standard Augusto Pinochet tortured and murdered. His legacy is Latin America's most successful country.

Saudi Ambassador Abruptly Resigns, Leaves D.C.

It's Not Apartheid Carter Adds to the List Of Mideast Misjudgments By Michael Kinsley,

Tehran's Holocaust Lesson By Anne Applebaum,

NSA Denies Monitoring Calls of Princess Diana

Lebanon's Shiites Grapple With New Feeling of Power (repeat)

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO . . . BOBBY INMAN? Retired Admiral Wears Many Caps

William Arkin Wasting Time on Princess Di

H6 Guardian Routine and systematic torture is at the heart of America's war on terror George Monbiot: In the fight against cruelty, barbarism and extremism, America has embraced the very evils it claims to confront.

How Gulf states could start new nuclear race Iran's nuclear programmes, whether sinister or not, could hasten the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction across the Middle East, writes Simon Tisdall.

Israel, Palestine, peace and apartheid Jimmy Carter: Americans need to know the facts about the abominable oppression of the Palestinians.

Michael Kinsley: Where is the Palestinian Mandela? No doubt many Israelis have racist attitudes towards Arabs, but the official philosophy of the government is quite the opposite.

Russia seizes $20bn gas project
Fears for UK's energy security.
Kremlin piled pressure on Shell

Olmert's stray comment fuels the nuclear debate The Israeli prime minister stumbled into controversy after apparently admitting his country possesses a nuclear arsenal

Annan bows out of UN with attack on Bush
· Secretary general accuses US of human rights abuses
· Washington 'abandoned its ideals' in war on terror

Leader Death of a dictator Augusto Pinochet's friends and enemies are unlikely to have changed their views of him since his death on Sunday, which by bizarre but appropriate coincidence was International Human Rights Day.

Holocaust deniers gather in Iran
Visitors include ex-KKK chief and radical rabbis.

H7 Democracies of the World, Unite ivo daalder & james lindsay - The Bush Administration and its critics offer, respectively, 19th- and 20th-century foreign policies for a 21st-century world. But if we want to foster democracy... more»

Morgan Stanley Global Transitions

The New Hegemon by Vali Nasr in The New Republic, Dec, 18, 2006. A review of three recent books about Iran.

Don't Blame The Iraqis, We Broke Iraq - Peter Beinart, The New Republic

The Big Lie About the Middle East - Lisa Beyer, Time

An Ultra-Intrusive Approach To Iran By: Geoffrey Forden

State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future by the The Worldwatch Institute.

Donald Rumsfeld: The Exit Interview - Cal Thomas, Sacramento Bee

America Can Only Delay Iraqi Civil War - Richard Cohen, NY Daily News

From AEI, an essay on The Ugly Americans: How not to lose the Global Culture War.

H8 Google News Iraq Iran Syria Mideastwire.com - NPR Iraq

EurasiaNet Pivotal Election Can Change the Islamic Republic’s Course

Le Monde Diplomatique Iran’s new power balance

BBC Ready or not?
An assessment of the state of Iraq's army and police forces

Daily Star Editorial Not much to rejoice about in Baghdad-Damascus ties

Jordan carefully measures its democratic openings
By Rana Sabbagh-Gargour

MEMRI Dec 12 SD# 1389 - Saudi Oppositionist: King 'Abdullah is Trying to Keep Prince Na'if From Acceding to the Throne

Al Awsat Nasrallah: Risking Siniora’s Blood and Violating Hariri’s : Tariq Alhomayed

H9 Ha’aretz - Olmert: Iran seeking to develop nuclear bomb, 'like America, France and Israel'

PM aides: No violation of 'nuclear ambiguity' policy

Syria blasts Israel over Golan water reservoir

Daily Alert.org - EJC Israeli Press Review – Google News Israel –

Yedioth AhronothFundamentalist alliance US-Israel alliance currently based on pact between fundamentalists, Yossi Paritzky says

Israel assays Sunni 'allies' Israeli officials yesterday quietly welcomed a decision by several Persian Gulf states to consider a nuclear energy program as evidence the region's Sunni Arab governments are becoming more open in their opposition to a common enemy -- Iran.

Why Is It Always About Israel? - David Frum, National Post

Jerusalem Post Analysis: The new Holocaust denial By ANSHEL PFEFFER The Iran conference shows this could become an accepted if controversial academic opinion.

Ignacio Ramonet on the Palestinian Labyrinth.

A look at why the Baker-Hamilton report has Israelis nervous, but why is it always about Israel?

David Frum wants to know. Taking from the Baker playbook, Ehud Olmert is reaching out to the Palestinians and Iraq’s neighbors as Israel becomes more concerned about Iran

H10 Christian Science Monitor A new front emerges in global jihad: Africa

As Islamists take over Somalia, its Western- backed neighbor Ethiopia prepares for war.

In Fallujah, Marines bring goodwill
to citizenry, but trouble can follow

Those seen cooperating with US forces trying to rebuild are threatened – and sometimes killed.

Why Britain wants new nukes It has announced a $39 billion overhaul, spurring calls to bolster global nuclear weapons regulation.

Controversial legacy of former Chilean dictator

Dante Chinni: A pro-war blogger's reports from Iraq

America and Japan Approach a Rising China AEI

H11 IHT Shell bows to Kremlin pressure on Sakhalin gas project

Politicus: For Russia's cooperation, a harder line may be needed JOHN VINOCUR The West seems unwilling to put pressure on President Vladimir Putin, but that is dangerous at a time when Russia's cooperation — especially on Iran — is paramount.

Europe's Global Mission By: George Soros | The Times of India

Le Monde Jacques Chirac et la "Nouvelle Europe", par Natalie Nougayrède

H12 RFE/RL

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Implications for U.S. Interests CRS

Central Asia: Regional Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests CRS

Google News Azerbaijan

EurasiaNet Authorities in Azerbaijan Lift Ban on Independent Broadcaster

EDM MOSCOW SELF-DISQUALIFYING AS PEACEKEEPER AND MEDIATOR IN ABKHAZ, SOUTH OSSETIAN CONFLICTS

Exclusive: Murdered spy worked for UK security firm

Der Spiegel 'Walking Dirty Bomb' Tells of London Meetings

The Litvinenko Affair: A Remarkable Plot - The Economist

BBC Mystery play
The key players in the Litvinenko poisoning drama

Washington Times Editorial U.S.-Russia relations U.S.-Russia relations are at their lowest ebb since the end of the Cold War. While Russia is no longer the tractable ally it was under Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, it is premature to conclude that Vladimir Putin is leading Russia on a path toward inevitable animosity.

H13 The Times By 2040: an Arctic with no ice? American researchers, assessing the impact of carbon emissions on the climate, have calculated the Arctic's late summer will be ice-free by 2040

Leader Criminal Denial Iran’s posturing on the Holocaust is an affront to history and to humanity

PUTIN SIGNALS END TO OVERSEAS OWNERSHIP OF ENERGY...

Gaza rivals lurch toward civil war as children are killed in school run 'hit'

Annan says farewell with a swipe at Bush In his last major policy address, the UN chief reiterated his criticism of the Iraq War and implied doubts about the leadership of Bush

Competitive mud-slinging ignores UN's own failures Bronwen Maddox: World Briefing Kofi Annan's accusations against George W. Bush would have more weight if he had turned some of the heat back on the United Nations

Russian exiles to boost poison spy inquiry

Wall Street Journal The Pinochet Paradox A Cold War dictator who paved the way for democracy.

Honor Killing How does the Iraq Study Group report meet the test of honor? Mainly by failing it.
By BRET STEPHENS

Bernanke in Beijing
Ben and Hank's less than excellent adventure

Pinochet
Why was Pinochet more hated than every other dictator?
By ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA

Washington Times Overlooked options By Bruce Fein The Iraq Study Group Report issued last week after nine months of labor is not worth the price of admission.

A review of Iraq Study Group By Tod Lindberg

Poisoned fruits By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. It seems as though poison is much in vogue at the moment. For example, Russia's emerging dictator, Vladimir Putin, appears to be offing his enemies left and right.

More carrots than sticks

By Michael Barone

H14 Financial Times COMMENT: Europe must do more to embrace its neighbours The EU has used the accession process as its main method to promote economic and political reform in its neighbourhood. But now it needs new methods, writes Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform.

Bush maintains optimistic line on Iraq

Washington looks to ‘blame Iraqis and run’

Editorial Gazprom's gas grab The Kremlin has once again forced the owners of a prize Russian energy asset to cede control. This time, the victims are Shell and its partners in the $20bn Sakhalin-2...

MIDDLE EAST: Killing of children raises tensions in the Gaza Strip

Iran conference questions Holocaust

COMMENT: The Federal Reserve may well have hit its speed limit As the US Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee meets on Tuesday, Ben Bernanke, the chairman, and his colleagues face a difficult challenge, writes Stephen Cecchetti, of the Brandeis Inter­national Business School.

COMMENT: Why Brown makes Whitehall nervousWhitehall awaits Gordon Brown’s putative premiership with much uncertainty and some trepidation, writes Philip Stephens.

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: The alloy approach: how industry in the west is learning again to competeIf the doomsayers are to be believed, virtually all the world’s production is shifting to low-cost nations such as China, in a process that will make factories in rich countries about as rare as frock-coats and gramophones. The reality is different.

China risk to world economy, says Schwab US-Chinese relations are in jeopardy because Beijing is slowing the pace of reform and putting the global economy at risk, Washington’s chief trade negotiator said on the eve of a high-level delegation to China.

WORLD NEWS: Saudi envoy to US setto step down

THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: A force to be reckoned with

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial NSA still needs more oversight

The new Congress should give top priority to regulating the NSA's domestic surveillance program.

Draft Democrats Draft Democrats to help run Iraq By Mike Murphy The president can one-up the Baker-Hamilton group by forming a bipartisan war council.

FT

A nation moving at different speeds

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Western governments are guilty of hypocrisy over global corruption

FT REPORT - CHINA: Unstoppable yet unsustainable

FT REPORT - CHINA: Difficult to slow the behemoth

FT REPORT - CHINA: The two differ in business as much as they do in politics

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: New-model nation: why China faces fresh tasks on tradeBeijing can be pleased at the outcome of five years of WTO membership but, as its industries move up the value chain, it must also decide how active a role to take in managing globalisation

Editorial The decoupled pound is a better currency Only a few years ago, a strong pound would have been greeted by a cacophony of complaints from business and laments about lost competitiveness.

Shell offers to cut Sakhalin-2 stake by 30%Offer to cedes majority control to Gazprom

Shell’s compromise is no solution for Russia Shell’s decision to negotiate with Gazprom seems to follow in the grand tradition of the Seven Sisters of cutting deals with governments – or their corporate state controlled champions – in return for access to their natural resources.

H16 American Politics

Coming GOP War -- Over the War! - Pat Buchanan, Creators

Obama Can Help Hillary Move Beyond Past - E. J. Dionne

realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec

CSM What drives Obama-mania?

Boston Globe Obama bandwagon is filling up fast

Could Barack Obama be the next US president? Democrats' new great hope takes New Hampshire by storm

Gore 'hasn't ruled out running' in '08
Says 'not planning' to run; Also, Sen. Clinton 'delaying decision' on 2008 bid.

H17 Daily Telegraph An offensive conference, by an offensive regime
As if to declare its bravura defiance of what the West considers to be fundamental civilised values, Iran has convened a Holocaust denial conference. The title given to this assemblage is "Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision".

H18 Independent Mary Dejevsky: I'm with the conspiracy theorists on Diana's death

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

REPORT: USA SPIED ON DIANA; HUNDREDS OF SECRET FILES; PHONE TAPPED NIGHT OF DEATH...

CBS NSA: WE DID NOT SPY ON DIANA

National Security Archive Solidarity and Martial Law in Poland:
25 Years Later
U.S. Misread Polish Leadership, and Was Unprepared for the Crackdown despite Having a Spy on the Inside

The growing role of women in terrorism

(By Paula Broadwell)

A Big Problem With Pakistan - Peter Brookes, New York Post

ICG Pakistan’s Tribal Areas: Appeasing the Militants

H21 The British Library Preserving every book published in the United Kingdom and Ireland, nearly 50m patents and 4m maps, is a gigantic task

Hackers gain access to UCLA computer files Personal data of 800,000 students, alumni and others is exposed in one of the largest security breaches ever at an American university

Research Study Outlines U.S. Economic Impact of Windows Vista
Source: International Data Corporation/Microsoft

Why are men, taken on average and as a whole, funnier than women? Well, for one thing, they had damn well better be. Christopher Hitchens explains... more»

From Bangladesh, an interview with Muhammad Yunus: Give the man credit for helping millions of people.

Gore Vidal: DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS IS 'LAST HOPE FOR THE REPUBLIC'; NANCY REAGAN HAD KEY ROLE IN ENDING COLD WAR; SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS DON'T GO TOGETHER

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