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TOKYO (AP) - Former President Clinton said Sunday that his wife, Hillary, would be an excellent choice as the first female leader of the world's most powerful nation. In an interview with Japan's TV Asahi, Clinton said he did not know whether his wife, the senator of New York state, has any plans to one day run for the presidency. "I don't know if she'll run or not," he told the network, but added, "She would make an excellent president, and I would always try to help her." Hillary Rodham Clinton has said she plans to run for re-election as...

Foreign Affairs NewsSource: New York TimesPublished: 1/22/01 Author: STEVEN LEE MYERS and ERIC SCHMITTPosted on 01/22/2001 06:17:09 PST by Antiwar Republican Iraq Rebuilt Weapons Factories, Officials Say By STEVEN LEE MYERS and ERIC SCHMITT Agence France-Presse Allied jets still patrol zones in Iraq, striking if fired on. Iraqis cleared debris near the Saudi border on Sunday. Related Articles• No Honeymoon Likely for New President's Foreign Policy Team (Jan. 20, 2001) • Iraq Is Focal Point as Bush Meets With Joint Chiefs (Jan. 11, 2001) • From His New Perch, Powell Scans the World (Jan. 3, 2001)• A Higher Threshold for...

Demonstrations are taking place around the world in protest at a possible US-led attack on Iraq. As many as 100,000 are expected to take part in protests later on Saturday in San Francisco and Washington. Organisers expect the US demo to be the biggest anti-war protest since the Vietnam War. They're just saying that because they want to score some "grass" and hope Jefferson Airplane will come out to play the event - Ivan Other marches are taking place in Rome, Berlin, Stuttgart, Freiburg in Germany, Copenhagen, Denmark; Tokyo, South Korea and Mexico City. South Korea particularly galls me. They...

BRET STEPHEN'S EYES ABROAD: Last refuge of scoundrels So the man who once said that there was "no anti-Semitic implication in the denial of the existence of the gas chambers or even in the denial of the Holocaust" also thinks America is "a leading terrorist state." Here is where any intelligent discussion of anti-Americanism must begin. The man, of course, is Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT and author, most recently, of 9-11, which in just a few weeks has sold more than 100,000 copies. According to Chomsky, "we can think of the United States as an innocent victim...