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...those same eyes carry mostly sadness. For the past three decades he has lived in exile in Italy while his nation was decimated by foreign invasion and civil war. But Afghanistan is again set to turn to its former King for help. As part of last year's Bonn accord, which established Hamid Karzai as interim leader, the former King will inaugurate in June a loya jirga, a traditional Afghan assembly to choose a new head of state and transitional government to lead the country to elections in 2004. The ex-King's presence, it is hoped, will give this...
...Saudis insist on the opposite order; they aren't interested in talks unless Sharon endorses Abdullah's vision. In any event, the Saudis say they have nothing more to add. They have no interest in the laborious--and until now unsuccessful--work of hammering out details of a peace accord. "We are not in the real estate or zoning business," says the Crown Prince's foreign policy adviser Adel Jubeir. According to Arab diplomats, Abdullah has two immediate objectives. One is to lure the U.S. back into its old role as mediator between the Israelis and Palestinians, a function President...
...Oslo postponed "final status" talks on the most difficult questions between Israelis and Palestinians for six years of "confidence-building" that in the end built very little confidence. The critical point, though, which appears to elude Fleischer and the Bush team, is that it took the Oslo Accord to end the last intifada. It's simply ludicrous to imagine that Israelis and Palestinians were peacefully getting on with their lives until Bill Clinton got them all fired up with ideas about sharing Jerusalem. Before Oslo, Palestinians had spent five-years in a state of violent rebellion against the Israeli occupation...
...accord POW status to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay [VIEWPOINT, Feb. 4]? They could be incarcerated without trial until the war against terrorism is over and then released. This is what happened in World Wars I and II. I don't suppose the legal profession would be too keen on this idea, but it makes a lot of sense to me, as it would probably mean the prisoners would never go free. DAVID WILLIAMS Hadleigh, England...
...many tongues - as the Convention for the Future of Europe began last week. The meeting of the 105 delegates to the Convention, drawn from the 15 current European Union member states and 13 candidate countries, is tasked with solving some of the E.U.'s most stubborn conundrums. How to accord the necessary power to E.U. institutions without giving up the democratic control that now resides mostly in national capitals? How to untangle the often overlapping competences of local, regional, national and Continental governments? At a scheduled pace of one session a month under the stern leadership of former French President...