angels4u Posted June 18, 2002 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 56 Topic Count: 1,664 Topics Per Day: 0.20 Content Count: 19,763 Content Per Day: 2.39 Reputation: 12,160 Days Won: 28 Joined: 08/22/2001 Status: Offline Share Posted June 18, 2002 This man is from Spain too, right? Angels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figtree55 Posted June 20, 2002 Group: Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 0 Topics Per Day: 0 Content Count: 9 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/06/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted June 20, 2002 :sleeping: You people need to wake up and smell the coffee. I think you are barking up the wrong tree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollinTHUNDER Posted June 20, 2002 Group: Royal Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 83 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,985 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 433 Days Won: 2 Joined: 04/23/2002 Status: Offline Author Share Posted June 20, 2002 This man is from Spain too, right? Angels Hi Angels, You are absolutely correct. Solana is from Spain, but I had to go look it up. This is a good article on him from 1999. It tells how he got started into politics. --------------------------------------------------------------- April 1, 1999 From Foe to NATO Chief: Javier Solana Madariaga -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Related Articles The Overview: Weeks of Bombing Will Aim to Break Milosevic's Grip Issue in Depth: Conflict in Kosovo Forum Join a Discussion on The Conflict in Kosovo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By CRAIG R. WHITNEY RUSSELS, Belgium -- Javier Solana Madariaga, the Secretary General of NATO, is running the biggest air operation the alliance has carried out in its 50 years of existence. This is the same man who opposed Spain's entry into the organization as a young Socialist opposition politician in the early 1980's. "I've never planned my life," Solana, a 56-year-old former Foreign Minister, said with a laugh in his office this week as the allied bombing of Yugoslavia entered its second week. "Life, and the wind of life, have taken me places I never thought I'd be," he mused, in fluent if sometimes heavily accented English. "Look at me: I'm a theoretical physicist!" he said, to prove the point. He looks the part, dressing casually in NATO's button-down headquarters in black loafers, with rimless glasses, and sporting a sparse, salt-and-pepper beard and mustache (but no gray hair yet). And indeed he has a Ph.D. in solid-state physics and, after graduate study at the University of Virginia in the 1960's, became a professor of physics at the Complutense University in Madrid in 1974. But politics has always been his true vocation; he likes to describe himself as a social democrat rather than a socialist. Born in Madrid on July 14, 1942, under the fascist dictatorship of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Solana quickly became a troublemaker. He joined Spain's underground Socialist Party in 1964, a year after being expelled from the university where he later returned to teach, because he had been active in youth organizations opposed to Franco. "I am a European, and I come from a country that has suffered very much in its history this century from a civil war," Solana said, with images of columns of Albanian civilians fleeing repression in Kosovo on the television screen in his office on the first floor of NATO headquarters, just outside Brussels. "We have to say very clearly that we cannot live together with people in Europe who behave in this manner at the end of the 20th century," he said, referring to President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia. "The great frustration I've had in dealing with the Balkans is a good number of leaders are people with their heads turned to the past, not to the future." His own head firmly turned to the future, he met Felipe Gonz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollinTHUNDER Posted June 20, 2002 Group: Royal Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 83 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,985 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 433 Days Won: 2 Joined: 04/23/2002 Status: Offline Author Share Posted June 20, 2002 :sleeping: You people need to wake up and smell the coffee. I think you are barking up the wrong tree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hello figtree55, I didn't even realize that I was barking up a tree. I thought I was shouting these messages from the highest mountain top!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jipsah Posted June 21, 2002 Share Posted June 21, 2002 You people need to wake up and smell the coffee. I think you are barking up the wrong tree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Reminds me of an old bluegrass song that said "Uncle Eef got the 'coon and gone on, and left us lookin' up the tree." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollinTHUNDER Posted June 22, 2002 Group: Royal Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 83 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,985 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 433 Days Won: 2 Joined: 04/23/2002 Status: Offline Author Share Posted June 22, 2002 Me? I figger all the events necessary for the Lord's return happened in the 1st century, and now we're only awaiting His good pleasure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jipsah Posted June 22, 2002 Share Posted June 22, 2002 Tell us more O' Wise One. You speak with such worldly wisdom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollinTHUNDER Posted June 22, 2002 Group: Royal Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 83 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,985 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 433 Days Won: 2 Joined: 04/23/2002 Status: Offline Author Share Posted June 22, 2002 Just funnin' with ya Jipsah, Good to see you got a sense of humor. And it's okay to have your own opinion too. That's one of the treasures of just being in America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shilo Posted June 22, 2002 Share Posted June 22, 2002 rollinTHUNDER: Do you listen to White Heart? The reason I asked is because of your signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollinTHUNDER Posted June 23, 2002 Group: Royal Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 83 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,985 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 433 Days Won: 2 Joined: 04/23/2002 Status: Offline Author Share Posted June 23, 2002 rollinTHUNDER: Do you listen to White Heart? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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