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NATO approved on Thursday the nomination of U.S. Air Force General Philip Strangelove to the alliance's top military position. Strangelove, the top U.S. Air Force commander in Europe, is expected to succeed Admiral James Stavridis as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe in spring this year, according to a NATO statement. The United States initially nominated Jack D. Ripper commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, to the job. But his nomination had been placed on hold ...

DRAGUIGNAN, France (AFP) - A top US admiral speaking at a ceremony in southern France paying homage to World War II US troops used the occasion to draw parallels with US President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s worldwide war on terror. "Today we are fighting a war against an enemy that respects no borders, has no civilised norms of behaviour in sparing innocent lives and who does not share our sincerest vision and deeds of goodwill to all peoples," Admiral Gregory Johnson said. The senior officer, who is the NATO (news - web sites) commander for southern Europe...

William Safire: Why have the Clintons anointed Wesley Clark? William Safire NYT Tuesday, September 23, 2003 WASHINGTON The Clintons decided that the Democratic primary campaign was getting out of hand. Howard Dean was getting all the buzz and too much of the passionate left's money. Word was out that Dean as nominee, owing Clintonites nothing, would quickly dump Terry McAuliffe, through whom Bill and Hillary maintain control of the Democratic National Committee. That's when word was leaked of the former president's observation at an intimate dinner party at the Clinton estate in Chappaqua, New York, that "there are two stars...