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...position unimpeachable. But partly at the prodding of nervous Arab allies, the U.S. has begun to look for ways to nudge the Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. Last week the State Department latched onto a tentative offer made by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud for the Arabs to grant Israel a full peace if the Israelis withdraw from all territory seized in the 1967 war. An Arab diplomat says the initiative "puts Sharon in a corner...[and] it signals to the U.S. government, 'If you get engaged, there are important friends...
Shakespeare would envy the complexity of the scene as Afghanistan's leaders gather to bury a colleague, Tourism and Civil Aviation Minister Abdul Rahman, who was murdered at the Kabul airport two weeks ago. Though Karzai presides, it is apparent that while he possesses the ceremonial trappings of his office--a presidential guard and an off-tune military band--the real power lies elsewhere. Defense Minister Mohammed Qasim Fahim and Interior Minister Younus Qanooni both arrive for memorial prayers with a retinue of armed warriors. The assorted dignitaries remove their shoes to enter the local mosque. Karzai later notes with...
...significant is the Middle East peace initiative launched by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Saud? More than some might expect, for two reasons. First, as the violence between Israelis and Palestinians ratchets up to new levels, there is a yearning for something that might take the parties back to the negotiating table. Second, the Saudis have traditionally played a silent, watchful diplomatic game, waiting for others to make the first move. For Abdullah to issue such a public proposal--his diplomats call it a "statement of vision" and a "signal to the Israeli people"--is unprecedented...
...excuse to take whatever they wanted," said the agent, "They stole everything and even raped some of the women." In mid-February there was another report that Dadullah was in Sancharak, the tiny village in the mountains to the south of Mazar. Alliance commander Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, confident that Dadullah was as good as caught, was rash enough to announce on the radio that the former scourge of Mazar would soon be under lock and key. Again, hundreds of his men raced out and again, Dadullah escaped. "We will get him in the end, "says Anwar...
...addition to being captain of his cheerleading squad at UT-Austin and a dance coach at three other colleges, Royer has had professional dance experience with the likes of Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, DMX, and Paula Abdul...