41. No date has been set for the elections, which the president must call before the end of the year. 42. On Monday the president called five world leaders to preview his controversial plan, which calls for reduction in nuclear warheads. 43. On Sunday, in Little Rock, the president called several world leaders and attempted to reach French President Jacques Chirac. 44. On two occasions, the president called contributors to thank them for donations. 45. Only a day or so after the scandal broke out, Jackson said, the president called. 46. Powell said that the president had called President Vladimir Putin of Russia and the Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin. 47. Some demanded that the president call elections to decide whether he would continue in office. 48. Still, the president calls Sydney. 49. The Chinese president immediately called Bush and offered condolences and condemned the deadly strikes. 50. The French president also called on Israel to withdraw from its buffer zone in southern Lebanon. |