1. Arafat is expected to continue to seek support for statehood when he visits leaders of Pakistan, China and India. 2. As Spring and Sir Patrick met on Monday, a delegation of influential Irish-Americans visited leaders on all sides in Belfast and Dublin. 3. Chavez has visited the leaders of Iraq and Libya and praised their governments, though Washington considers them rogue nations that have sponsored terrorism. 4. Colin Powell visited Arab leaders and told them to stop supporting suicide bombers. 5. Defense Secretary William S. Cohen is expected to visit Gulf leaders next week. 6. Days later, Armitage visited both leaders and carried statements of their positions back and forth between them. 7. Dick Cheney visited Arab leaders and told them to stop supporting terrorism. 8. He met with visiting world leaders, sent a conciliatory message to Syria and pushed ahead the planning for Israeli troop withdrawals on the West Bank. 9. He said he expected that it will be completed within two weeks and that it had begun shortly after the raid when he visited Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai. 10. Holbrooke, who is visiting leaders of all the countries involved in the conflict, expressed concern about recent battles between rebels and government forces in Congo. |