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...summit showed the limits of Saddam's comeback. What mattered was not the readiness to lift sanctions, but the continuing insistence that Saddam abide by U.N. resolutions designed to curb his military ambitions. Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah II were the most willing to loosen the economic noose, but they insisted Saddam accept his U.N. obligations and seemed stunned by his obstinacy. "Iraq," said influential Egyptian columnist Ibrahim Nafie, "does not want to help itself...
...general public perception of the police has been very severely dented," says Sulaiman Abdullah, a prominent lawyer. The current controversies are particularly troubling for many Malaysians, Sulaiman adds, in the wake of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's imprisonment and conviction on charges of corruption and sodomy. After Anwar was severely beaten on the night of his arrest in September 1998, an internal police inquiry failed to identify the culprit. It took a Royal Commission of Inquiry to determine that then-police chief Rahim Noor had administered the beating. (In a subsequent trial, Rahim was found guilty...
...fluent in five languages, Wahid descends from a line of Javanese holy men, and it is difficult to convince him that he is not infallible. Ever since Wahid became the country's first democratically elected President in three decades, he has shown a knack for picking fights. Says Taufik Abdullah, an expert on Indonesian history: "He has been making enemies from Day One, and I don't think it had to be this way." First, Wahid jeeringly referred to parliament as a "kindergarten"?and never apologized. Months later, he removed several ministers belonging to the three largest parties...
...forget the bitter yesterday and find a permanent solution. We can no longer afford to live in tension," says Abdul Ghani Bhat, the chairman of the Hurriyat Conference. "There is no alternative other than talking, talking, talking." Other voices are still obstinate. "Dialogue delivers nothing," says self-styled General Abdullah, 43, chief of the pro-Pakistan Islamic militant group Jamiatul Mujahideen. "India is a pain for us. We want to get rid of that pain. Our mission is to fight. Whether we succeed or die, either way we are satisfied." The main question is whether the years of violence...
...through which India made secret overtures to the Hurriyat leaders in Srinagar and Kashmiri insurgents inside India and Pakistan, often through contacts in the Middle East. Mishra insisted that intelligence agencies brief him directly on all operations in Kashmir. He sidelined Kashmir's top elected official, Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, a figure whose political power rests more on his late father Sheikh Abdullah's reputation as a Kashmiri patriot than on popular support...