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...suicide or murder? And why? Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kenaan--who had been Syrian proconsul from 1982 to 2002 and "the real power in Lebanon," says former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel--was found shot in his Damascus office last week, less than two weeks before the expected release of a U.N. report on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Syrian authorities swiftly declared Kenaan's death a suicide. Still, speculation swept Damascus that Kenaan may have killed himself because he feared that his government was setting him up in the murder of Hariri, with whom...
...MILTON OBOTE, 80, early architect of Uganda's independence from Britain in 1962 and the country's first postcolonial prime minister; in Johannesburg, South Africa. The savvy, but ultimately despotic, politician, who tried unsuccessfully to unite Uganda's factionalized parties, was overthrown in 1971 by his military aide, Idi Amin. After Amin's brutal reign, Obote regained power in 1980, but an allegedly rigged election and his repressive rule led to his ouster and exile to Zambia...
...same. We're the same," insists Ali Raza Jiwani, 14. "We're the same as everyone else: humans made by God." Ali Raza and his buddies talk basketball. They tease one another about girls. They swear. And they are fervently patriotic. "We're proud to be Asian American," says Amin Ali, 15, who has thought about becoming a military pilot. "I love my country," says Salman. "My religion doesn't interfere with that." Some even became scouts in the belief that it would make them seem more American. Auri Moaven, 15, of Short Hills, N.J., says his Iranian-born parents...
...killing ordinary citizens, apparently to stir up sectarian hatred. The goal: to incite a civil war that each side hopes will give its sect dominance over the other. In Baghdad, a city of more than 5 million, there were at least 880 violent deaths last month, according to Faiq Amin Bakr, director of the Baghdad central morgue. (In New York City, with a population of more than 8 million, the total number of homicides for all of 2004 was 571.) And the figure for Baghdad excludes those killed by car bombings and suicide attacks, which, if included, would add nearly...
...when Lebanon won independence from France, an unwritten agreement has required that the President be a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim, and the speaker of parliament a Shi'ite Muslim. The December accord gave the Muslims greater representation in the executive and the legislative branches. President Amin Gemayel at first praised the plan, but he quickly changed his mind when fellow Christian leaders voiced concern that the pact would end traditional Christian dominance of Lebanese political life. Last Monday, as Gemayel prepared to return to Damascus to share his misgivings with Assad, fighting broke out in Christian...