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...news from elsewhere in Lebanon last week was equally discouraging. A standoff continued between President Amin Gemayel and Christian militiamen who oppose many of his policies. In the port city of Sidon, the arrival of Lebanese army forces did not halt two weeks of fighting between Christian and Muslim gunmen in which more than 90 people have been killed. In southern Lebanon, Israeli forces continued their painful withdrawal, which they hope to complete by the end of May. Behind them, as part of the upheaval produced by the 1982 invasion, they are leaving a Shi'ite guerrilla movement of undetermined...
...hour later, a voice interrupted programming on the state-run Radio Uganda to announce the "end of Obote's tribalistic rule." Obote had been charged with the killings of as many as 100,000 people since his election in 1980 to succeed the even more bloodstained dictator Idi Amin Dada...
Indeed, Uganda's bloody history of tribal vendettas did not seem likely to end soon. In Saudi Arabia, the exiled Idi Amin, who had ousted Obote in 1971 before being overthrown himself in 1979, applauded the coup but warned that "if the new leaders refuse my advice, we would work to topple them." Asked if he would return to Uganda, Amin merely answered, "Everybody wants to go home...
...death, that anyone even heard him sing. According to Nur-ul-Haq, Mirwais had never hummed or whistled until the day when he climbed a pomegranate tree in the garden and sang to his mother. His voice was a revelation. She immediately apprenticed him to a music teacher, Ustaad Amin Jan Mazari, who listened to him and took him on for free. In the South Asian tradition of gurus and disciples, Mirwais lived with his teacher "like a son," recalls Mazari. He did household chores and spent hours each day practicing the broad range of vocal scales found in classical...
...Amin Gemayel: Between who and who? All the parties are in the same room around one table discussing openly the future of a democratic and free country. Hizballah is the last party in Lebanon to be military equipped. But it hasn't any interest in starting another civil war. It would become isolated in Lebanon and abroad and lose everything they won in the resistance against Israel. It would be political suicide for Hizballah to encourage a civil war. (Hizballah leader) Hassan Nasrallah on the day of the assassination called for a dialogue for the historic reconciliation...