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The Bush administration vowed on Monday to see through a U.S.-backed peace plan despite Israeli-Palestinian violence and called on Israel to meet its responsibilities to help bring about a "peaceful change." President George W. Bush "remains committed to the course that he laid out ... because it is the only course that will bring durable peace and security," U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said of the peace plan known as the road map. Rice, speaking to veterans in San Antonio, said progress was being made and played down the fallout from last week's suicide bus bombing and Israel's response....

The most powerful woman in Washington's official life is Condoleezza Rice, the White House national security adviser. She has President Bush's ear on issues of war and peace and is the link between Bush and his hawkish advisers. Despite some recent obvious failings in foreign policy, Rice appears to be destined for even bigger things. She is being mentioned as a possible successor to Secretary of State Colin Powell if Bush wins a second term. Her appointment would please the ultra conservative wing of the Republican Party. There also has been speculation that Rice, 46, might run for governor of...

Admirers have called her one of the country's best and brightest and the President's secret weapon. At a June 4 meeting with Jordanian, Palestinian Authority, and Israeli leaders, President Bush called her "my personal representative" and said she would work closely with the parties to help bring about peace. Her significance in shaping American foreign policy is hard to overstate. Known affectionately inside the White House as the Warrior Princess, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice often speaks for the President on foreign policy and is one of his closest confidants. From her northwest corner office of the West Wing, she...

In the terrorism business, it seems, diversity is all the rage. What Hemant Lakhani, an international arms dealer of British nationality and Indian ethnicity, Moinuddeen Ahmed Hameed, a Muslim from Malaysia, and Yehuda Abraham, a Jewish-American gem dealer who works out of New York City's diamond district, have in common is that they are all being held in connection with a plot to purchase surface-to-air missiles on behalf of terrorists. Except that the alleged terrorists they were dealing with were really FBI agents and informants, who had been tracking them for over a year in an effort to smoke out...

Is the Bush administration turning to a televangelist doomsayer for political predictions? Apocalyptic preacher Jack Van Impe is claiming that he was contacted by Condoleezza Rice’s office and the White House Office of Public Liaison for an “outline” of his take on world events.

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice gave a speech last week to the National Association of Black Journalists, and she likened the struggle for freedom in Iraq and elsewhere with the struggle for freedom here in America: We must never, ever indulge in the condescending voices who allege that some people in Africa or in the Middle East are just not interested in freedom, they're culturally just not ready for freedom, or they just aren't ready for freedom's responsibilities. We've heard that argument before, and we, more than any, as a people should be ready to reject it. The view was...

Despite Hawkish Stance, Rice On Way Up Bush's National Security Adviser Mentioned As Successor To Powell POSTED: 7:46 p.m. EDT August 7, 2003 WASHINGTON -- The most powerful woman in Washington's official life is Condoleezza Rice, the White House national security adviser. She has President George W. Bush's ear on issues of war and peace and is the link between Bush and his hawkish advisers. Despite some recent obvious failings in foreign policy, Rice appears to be destined for even bigger things. She is being mentioned as a possible successor to Secretary of State Colin Powell if Bush wins a...

DALLAS - Those at the National Association of Black Journalists who stood and gave National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice a standing ovation Thursday were few and far between in the Landmark Ballroom of this city's downtown Hyatt Regency Hotel. Rice strode into the ballroom after Gwen Ifill of PBS introduced her. There were no boos, catcalls or jeers as the audience applauded, but there wasn't the thunderous, almost unanimous standing ovation given another NABJ speaker seven years ago. It was in 1996 that Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan spoke at the NABJ convention in Nashville, Tenn. Farrakhan graciously accepted...

DALLAS - Those at the National Association of Black Journalists who stood and gave National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice a standing ovation Thursday were few and far between in the Landmark Ballroom of this city's downtown Hyatt Regency Hotel. Rice strode into the ballroom after Gwen Ifill of PBS introduced her. There were no boos, catcalls or jeers as the audience applauded, but there wasn't the thunderous, almost unanimous standing ovation given another NABJ speaker seven years ago.

http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/dropcap/w.gif ASHINGTON, Aug. 8 — As President Charles G. Taylor edges closer to leaving Liberia, meeting one of President Bush's conditions for a greater American military role, Pentagon officials say they are firmly resisting any significant expansion of the small contingent of American forces already sent ashore. But amid rising pressure from Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, and from African and European allies, Mr. Bush now faces a decision on whether to send in a larger force to help secure the port and the capital, Monrovia, and open up relief corridors. A spokesman for Mr. Annan said today...

DALLAS - National security adviser Condoleezza Rice likened Iraq's halting steps toward self-government to black Americans' struggle for civil rights, imploring black journalists yesterday to reject arguments that some people are incapable of democracy. "We've heard that argument before, and we, more than any, as a people, should be ready to reject it," Rice, who is black, told about 1,200 people at the National Association of Black Journalists convention. "The view was wrong in 1963 in Birmingham, and it is wrong in 2003 in Baghdad and in the rest of the Middle East," she said. Rice said White House officials...

The following address was recently delivered by National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice at the 28TH Annual Convention of the National Association of Black Journalists, held at the Hyatt Regency of Dallas, Texas.        It is a great honor for me to be before this distinguished group.  By advancing opportunity for black journalists you are advancing the values of freedom itself.  Your work helps ensure that our democracy has a broad perspective and a firm moral standing.It has been almost two years since the September 11th attacks – and it is worth taking a moment to reflect and report on the strategy...

Excerpts From Rice's Remarks to NABJ Excerpts from remarks Thursday by Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, before the National Association of Black Journalists in Dallas: - IRAQ: Confronting Saddam Hussein's Iraq was also essential. Let me be very clear about why we went to war against Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein's regime posed a threat to the security of the United States and the world. This was a regime that had pursued, had used and possessed weapons of mass destruction. The regime had links to terror, had twice invaded other nations, defied the international community and 17 United Nations resolutions...

Bush adviser Condoleezza Rice peddles democratic blueprint for Mideast WASHINGTON (AFP) - National security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), from the pages of The Washington Post, advocated a democratic renaissance in the Middle East similar to that of post World War II in Europe. Reiterating the anti-terrorist, foreign policy goals of the administration of her boss, US President George W. Bush (news - web sites), Rice voiced the hope that by introducing Iraq (news - web sites) to democracy a domino effect could be created in the region. "Much as a democratic Germany became a linchpin of a...

Rice Feels 'Responsible' for Iraq Uranium Charge WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's national security advisor Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday she felt personally responsible for the president's now-discredited charge that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa. "I certainly feel personal responsibility for this entire episode," Rice said on PBS's "Newshour" program Wednesday night. Rice said when she read the line in the State of the Union address she at the time thought it was "completely credible," but added: "What I feel, really, most responsible for is that this has detracted from the very strong case that the president has been...

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that she feels responsible for the questionable statement in President Bush's State of the Union address about Iraqi plans to buy uranium in Africa. "I certainly feel personal responsibility for this entire episode," she said in an interview on PBS' "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer." "What I feel most responsible for is that this is detracting from the very strong case the president has been making." Rice was the latest administration official, including CIA Director George Tenet and the president himself, to take responsibility for the now-discredited claim. Rice has come under mounting criticism...

Saudis step up pleas for 'acquittal' over September 11 attacks By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 31/07/2003) Saudi Arabia's campaign to clear itself in the court of American public opinion of involvement with the September 11 attacks was stepped up yesterday with an offer to let the United States interrogate a Saudi official. Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, in Washington for a hastily arranged meeting with President Goerge W Bush, said he had granted a request from the US national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to question Omar al-Bayoumi.But the prince declined to say if his government would extradite...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush on Wednesday accepted personal responsibility for a controversial portion of last winter's State of the Union address dealing with claims that Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear material in Africa. "I take personal responsibility for everything I say, absolutely," the president said at a White House news conference. Bush has been seeking to quell a controversy over a controversial claim that has dogged his administration for weeks.Speaking at his first solo news conference since March, the president said the deaths of Saddam Hussein's two sons marked progress in assuring the Iraqi people that the old regime...

<p>WASHINGTON – The White House denies reports that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice plans to resign over the State of the Union controversy.</p> <p>Rice has come under fire for her office's promotion – in spite of CIA warnings – of flawed intelligence on Iraq before the war, including a dubious charge that Baghdad was shopping for uranium to make nuclear bombs. President Bush made the allegation in his Jan. 28 speech to Congress.</p> <p>Rice claims she was out of the loop at the time concerns were raised about the uranium reference.</p>

<p>The congressional report on pre-Sept. 11 intelligence calls into question answers that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice gave the public last year about the White House's knowledge of terrorism threats.</p> <p>It's a fresh credibility issue for the adviser whose remarks about prewar Iraq information also have been questioned by members of Congress.</p>