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Li 1 ' --- -- Anjum NavdAssociated Press slogans as he with others gather at the residence of deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, who is scheduled to go to Faisalabad to address a lawyers convention, Saturday. A Pakistani lawyers chants who became head of the He described Musharraf as a "relic of yesterday." The move was an abrupt change in Zardari's stance towards the president, follow Peo-pie- 's Party following assassination of his wife, Benazir Bhutto, in December. "All powers will revert back to the parliament." ing months in which he and his party had sought an accommodation with Musharraf under pressure from Washington, many believe. 373-645- 344 2946 RETAIL ADVERTISING For missing papers, call by 9:30 a.m. FAX 356-301- 2 The Daily Herald (ISSN is published mornUSPS 143-060- ) New subscriptions, restarts, delivery or ings, Sunday through Saturday, 3 by Lee Publications, a division of weekbilling information, call 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, Daly i Sunday Utah. Postmaster Send address Thur, Fn, Sal, Sun & Holidays changes to The Daily Herald, P.O. Box 717, Provo, Utah 84603-0717- . 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That has prompted the country's costliest nuclear submarine and advocated returnFrench commander in chief to ing troops to NATO command. propose some of the most dramatic changes in his country's Sarkozy 's efforts to project the image of a militarily military policies in decades. France and Britain are empowerful France reasserting itself on the global security barking on a stage mask a partnership building airplanes, helicopters and weaponry tostruggle over withering defense budgets that threaten to , gether. reduce combat-read- y forces by They flirted this year with as much as 40 percent, sideline jointly building an aircraft major new weapons programs carrier. and eliminate bases in Africa. After decades of a go-it- 'J. THE WASHINGTON POST alone military strategy, France has become one of Europe's greatest advocates of an emerging European Union defense force and is considering allowing French forces back into the NATO command structure after a 4 absence. Five years after France ... ' became one of Washington's most vociferous opponents of the war in Iraq, Sarkozy is the only European leader who answered recent pleas from the United States and NATO to send more troops to Afghanistan. In July, France takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union, giving Sarkozy a powerful platform from which to promote his military behind-the-scen- Where else would you advertise? www.heraldextra.com at a time Europe-wid- e when the United States is eager for Europe to exert more plans military muscle. "He wants to reduce the number of military bases in Africa, he wants to send fewer troops abroad, and his goal is to integrate French troops more efficiently to the European forces," said Fabio Liberti, a European Union specialist at the Paris Institute of International Research and Strategies. 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