On 04 Jul 2006 22:47:41 -0400, in a place far, far away, Jim Kingdon
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way
as to indicate that:

Apparently those in charge of Area/CEV are of the non-international
thinking, whereas those in the Clinton and Bush I (or was it Reagan?
I don't remember when Europe and Japan were brought in to ISS)
administrations were of the international thinking.

Europe and Japan were in from the beginning (Reagan)--Clinton brought
in the Russians.