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Show Customer Service Newsroom Bush, Putin can't dance around differences 3 375-510- 801444-254- 0 free FAX ToH James Gerstenzang LOS ANGELES TIMES 5 www.heraldextra.com Strzet address: Send man to: 1555 M Freedom Blvd. Provo, UT P.O. Box 717, Frovo, UT 846030717 News Editors Randy Wright 3 mrightheraidextra.coni Metrojditor CrtyMor Am le Rose 0 aroseeheraidextra.com Angie Parkinson 7 aparkkBonheraldextra.com Sports Editor Darnell Dickson 5 ddidcsonheraldextra.com Business Editor Grace Leong 0 gleongheraldextra.com life Doug Fox 6 dfoxheraidextra.com Jim 4 jtynenheraldextra.com Style Editor EditofWl Page Editor Tynen Senior Managers . 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Putin, "I was able to get a sense of his I ; The freshman president's declaration about his initial encounter with the veteran KGB agent was criticized as naive, but it characterized Bush's effort to personalize his relationship with one of his most important counterparts on the world stage. With a month to go in Putin's presidency, and Bush's second term coming to an end, the two men met Saturday for dinner at a Russian presidential vacation home on the Black Sea shore. But the weekend meetings notwithstanding feast of venison the 2 fillet, red caviar and trout, veal bin and seafood pie suggest the challenge any world leader faces in seeking to personalize diplomatic ties. Even after seven years, and private meetings in settings as varied as Bush's Texas ranch in late autumn and the Russian president's woodsy dacha amid the of Moscow's outskirts, the message on the eve of their work session Sunday was, personal diplomacy can only go so far, and in a crunch, national interests certainly trump all As Bush has put it, they have had their "diplomatic On the other hand, Bush's spokeswoman reported Saturday that the two casually clad presidents took a turn on the stage with Russian folk dancers. Bush arrived in Sochi near the end of a weeklong trip that drew into focus the evolution of Central and Eastern Europe 12-ho- ur VLADIMIR Home Delivery Advertising 3 3736450 CLASSIFIED Delivery by 6 a.m. Mon-F- ri 7 a.m. Sat-Su- n For missing papers, call by 9:30 a.m. RETAIL 344-294- FAX ADVERTISING 6 356-301- 2 The Daily Herald (ISSN 0891-277USPS 143-060- ) is published mornNew subscriptions, restarts, delivery or ings, Sunday through Saturday, 3 weekby Lee Publications, a division of billiniformation, ca Lee Enterprises, Inc., 1555 N. days from 6 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Freedom Blvd., Provo, Utah 84604. SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAMS Periodicals postage paid at Provo, Daily & Sunday Utah. Postmaster: Send address Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun & Holidays' changes to The Daily Herald, P.O. Box 717, Provo, Utah 84603-071Thursday Only SUBSCRIPTIONS Mon-S- Sunday Only Thur, Sun & Holidays MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS 'Holiday delivery includes delivery the weeks of Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Pioneer Day, . Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. All contents Copyright O 2008, Dally Herald. Any reproduction or other use is strictly prohibited without written permission. head-butts- during weekend talks with Putin. and during his presidency also just how much has not changed in the relationship. Putin, who met Friday with NATO leaders at a summit in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, did not hide his displeasure with two of the alliance's central actions: the promise of eventual membership in NATO of Ukraine and Georgia, two countries on Russia's southern border that once were part of the Soviet Union, and the endorsement of a Bush plan to place missile interceptors and radars in Poland and the Czech Republic. Putin says the system would threaten the value of Russia's warheads. Bush says it is intended to pro- U.S.-Russi- ." anti-missi- le SAVE ON ALL HIGH EFFICIENCY AIR CLEANERS 6 months No InterestNo Payment Financing Available CallTbday For A FreeNo Cost Estimate i X. ? 489-708- 8 Hc-tl- ng ' end Air Conditioning H www.harveyheatingandair.com Regence believes Informed consumers can help transform the hearth care system. We're using this space to share hearth care opinions from others. . y But, she said, "we think the dialogue is headed in the right directioa" She also told reporters on the flight that Bush and Putin were working to hand over to their successors a written summary of key points in the relationship, dealing with security cooperation, weapons nonproliferation, counter-terrorisand economic issues. She suggested that statement could be completed before Bush leaves Russia Bush spent Saturday morning in blossom-dapple- d Zagreb, sense?" Croatia, in a stop dedicated After seven years of lunchto demonstrating, as he did in Bucharest and before that in es, dinners and exchanged home visits, it was an echo of Kiev, Ukraine, the extent of the concerns Putin raised when the transformation that has he and Bush first met, in Slove- taken place in Europe singe nia on June 16, 2001. the Iron Curtain came down ' " ' often And Bush, who more nearly two decades ago. than not talks about sprinting to 6,000 perhaps Speaking to the finish line of his presi- people in a square in the hilldency, sounded just a tad wea- top old town, Bush saluted ry, in a senior aide's account of Croatia's emergence from the the president's remarks at the ethnic wars of the Balkans, Its NATO meeting with Putin. "maturing democracy" arid its "You know, we're two old admission this week to NATO. "Should any danger threaten war horses, and we're both getting ready to step down , your people, America and the from our positions," was the NATO alliance will stand with ' aide's characterization of you, and no one will be able ; Bush's nod to Putin, which igto take your freedom away," : nored the Russian's likely grip Bush said. on power as prime minister The address was one in a under Dmitry Medvedev, his series Bush has given over ' handpicked, elected successor. the years to large crowds in Bush will meet privately nations that were once under with Medvedev after a busiMoscow's sway during the ness meeting with Putin on Cold War, each built around Sunday morning, before a final the theme of emerging democracy and freedom. working lunch of all three. "Over the centuries," he White House press secre- church said, the tary Dana Perino said Bush and Putin would not be able to that served as his backdrop overcome their differences on had "seen long, dark winters missile defense this weekend. of occupation and tyranny and They had not been expected to war. But the spring is here at ' do so. last." tect the United States, much of Europe and, potentially, Russia from missiles launched by Iran or elsewhere in the Middle East. NATO's expansion was very much on Putin's mind when he complained, at a news conference in Bucharest on Friday, about the alliance's eastward expansion and other steps. Arguing that not all democracies are in NATO, and that immediate admission to NATO would not have made Ukraine, " by definition, a democracy, Putin asked "What is this non- U.S.-Russi- ; The Earlier You Buy, The More You Save! 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