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SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: IRAN
"It's Better to Talk than to Fight"
Article in liberal Folha de S. Paulo (10-24) by columnist Clovis
Rossi says: "All the analyses that had indicated a road to
collision between Iran and the West began to dry up in half a dozen
days, after 30 years of estrangement....things are moving
forward.....It seems clear that what President Barack Obama calls
his engagement policy is working.....It is obvious, nothing has
been resolved. But things are better today than they were one
month ago."
White