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Lawrence S. Eagleburger, who briefly served as secretary of state for President George H.W. Bush, died Saturday at the age of 80. Eagleburger died in Charlottesville, Va., after a short illness, according to a family friend, Christy Reap.Few other details were immediately available.

~ EXCERPT ~ Friends and former colleagues say Lawrence S. Eagleburger, the only career foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state, has died. Word of Eagleburger's death Saturday came from representatives of former President George H.W. Bush and former Secretary of State James Baker. No other details were immediately available. Eagleburger, who was 80, was a straightforward diplomat whose exuberant style masked a hard-driving commitment to solving foreign policy problems.

McCain won't bow to the Religious Right. At United Jewish Communities conference, three representatives from the presidential campaigns of Senators John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, talked with an audience about why their candidate benefits the Jewish community.

I watched The African Queen, again this week. That classic movie, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, offered a clear explanation of several current news events this week. What is the lesson of The African Queen? It is this: Understand your circumstances, and set your goal based on that. In that movie, the goal was to sink the German warship, The Louisa. And that goal dictated the tactics which had to be taken, regardless of danger or odds against them, to reach that goal. As a reminder of that fine movie, the tactics were for Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayers...

Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for Saturday June 17th and Sunday June 18th, 2006 (not the live thread)The main message is the Sunday Shows.  Message 1 will be the Saturday Shows and message 2 will be the show guest links post.  Then I'll post the ping list.ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos) 'This Week' will NOT air on Sunday, June 18, due to ABC's coverage of World Cup soccer. 'This Week' returns on Sunday, June 25ABC This Week comment web page CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer) Meme: Big couple of weeks for Bush in Iraq, so what's wrong with this picture?Tony...

US warns Syria not to provide haven for wanted Iraqis By Ben Russell, Political Correspondent 14 April 2003 Syria faced renewed warnings from America not to provide safe haven for senior figures in Saddam Hussein's regime. Colin Powell, the Secretary of State, increased the diplomatic pressure on Damascus while Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defence, extended his rhetoric against the Syrians, insisting that "there's no question" that some senior Iraqi leaders had fled to Syria. "We certainly are hopeful Syria will not become a haven for war criminals or terrorists," Mr Rumsfeld said. President George Bush added to the pressure,...

Help bring down the NY Times!!! Copy and paste this story into an email, and send it to the addresses below! ______________________________________________ Busted! Lawrence Eagleburger outs the New York Times On Fox News Channel’s hit debate show “Hannity and Colmes”, former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger inarguably exposed the anti-Bush bias of the New York Times for all to see. Secretary Eagleburger recounted how he was approached by the NY Times to write an op-ed piece. The Times told him, explicitly, to be critical of the administration. Eagleburger declined to write the piece. This is indisputable evidence of how Howell...

Dear Ms. *****, Thank you for your e-mail. As you might imagine, we disagree with Lawrence Eagleburger's characterization of his recent dealings with our Op-Ed page. The Op-Ed department publishes pieces that express a wide variety of opinions and our Op-Ed staff tries very hard to reach out to writers who disagree with the editorial opinions of the paper. Since we've published at least 20 pieces by outside writers supporting the Bush war plan over the last few weeks, we obviously do not limit our contributors to those who are critical of the administration. Mr. Eagleburger has written for our...

Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger appeared on Hannity and Combes last night and reveal that he had been approached by the New York Times to write an op-ed piece on the Iraq conflict. The Times wanted the opinion on the condition that the opinion was their apparent opinion which is "critical of the Bush administration."Is the Times recruiting only critical opinions? Or, are they also recruiting supportive points of view?