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While leaders of Iraqi rebel groups in the south make grand predictions of a spontaneous Shi'ite-and Iraqi-army uprising against Saddam, many of them are refusing to join forces with the Americans. Sheik Jamal al-Wakil of the Islamic Accord Movement, an opposition Shi'ite group, says there is widespread distrust of the U.S. because coalition forces did nothing to stop Saddam's brutal suppression of the Shi'ites' 1991 and 1995 uprisings, even though it was George Bush Sr. who encouraged them. "There is no need for any communication with the Americans," says the Syria-based...
...Ulster Talks Stall NORTHERN IRELAND Elections to the devolved government were postponed until May 29 after the British and Irish Prime Ministers failed to get Unionists and Sinn Fein to agree on a system for policing breaches of the 1998 Good Friday accord. London suspended the power-sharing administration last October due to allegations of I.R.A. spying inside the British government. Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern postponed the elections, originally scheduled for May 1, to allow the parties more time to reach agreement. Going It Alone poland Prime Minister Leszek Miller defied calls by the opposition Civic Forum to hold...
...less important than preserving the equal rights and opportunities guaranteed to all people under the Constitution. With 4,400 out-of-state couples having already made the trek to Vermont to obtain civil unions, it is clear there is a pressing need to alter our legal interpretations in accord with our changing social customs...
...Indonesia A "cessation of hostilities" accord signed by Jakarta and the insurgent Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in December has brought "demilitarization" to the long-troubled province. The rebels are supposed to turn in their weapons within five months while Indonesian troops pull back to "defensive positions." Civilian killings have dropped from a pre-accord average of 87 per month to an average of 12. Businesses are re-opening and foreign aid has begun to arrive. Still, international monitors have cited both sides for violating the accord. Chief Security Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the deal is on the "brink...
...which the act seems to be based—that we have a unilateral right to begin a war against any country that cannot prove to us that it has no highly dangerous weapons, no matter what the rest of the world thinks. Since we obviously would not accord that right to anyone else, it rests on an assumption that we are good by definition and those we attack are evil. I make no case for the miserable Iraqi leaders, but there have always been authoritarian governments with dangerous weapons and plans to get even more dangerous ones and that...