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The Independent of London reported Thursday that "air strikes against targets in Iraq will start in 12 days time on 17 February, if current diplomatic moves to defuse the crisis fail."
But the WP reports that Lucinda Franks, Clinton's interviewer, claimed Clinton agreed to the interview to "defuse the issue in New York politics."
A reefered piece in the LAT emphasizes that the document dump is an attempt to defuse the controversy over McCain's efforts on behalf of campaign contributor Paxson Communications.
The patrols, explains the paper, were first proposed by the Russians but have since been embraced by the U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke, who stresses that the two countries are now working together to defuse the Kosovo crisis.
Dispersed government, European Union membership, affluence, and secularization could defuse ancient animosities.