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...signing on to the road map and the cease-fire. "We didn't agree to all this just to reopen the Gaza road," said a Hamas supporter a few weeks ago. Israelis, just as impatiently, expected the security forces of the Palestinian Authority, under Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, to arrest, disarm and dismantle Hamas and other militant bands. Neither side delivered, and each accused the other of purposefully stalemating progress...
...message. He announced a seven point "roadmap for democracy" that envisaged a new constitution and the first national elections since 1990, when the junta overturned a landslide by the National League for Democracy and put the party's leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, under house arrest for six years. Khin Nyunt was vague, however, on such crucial details as when the elections would be held...
...Khin Nyunt is considered pragmatic enough to accept that the country needs to grapple with its diplomatic isolation to avoid economic collapse. It was he who helped negotiate Suu Kyi's release 15 months ago from her second stint under house arrest. She was detained again last May and is being held at an undisclosed location...
...Prime Minister evolves as the Dr. Jekyll of Burma, he's surrounded by plenty of Mr. Hydes. Than Shwe is still chairman of the powerful military-controlled State Peace and Development Council (SPCD) and commander-in-chief of the armed forces; he ordered Suu Kyi's most recent arrest. More ominous: the Orwellian-sounding position of Secretary One in the SPCD, a top post vacated by Khin Nyunt last week, was given to Soe Win, a known hard-liner. A vital piece of the puzzle is missing, though: Khin Nyunt may be Prime Minister, but if he was forced...
...from government forces. By late last week, Twagiramungu had filed a petition with the country's Supreme Court seeking to nullify the vote. Independent observers confirm the arrest and disappearance of opposition figures in the runup to polling; a dozen Twagiramungu supporters were detained in Kigali on the eve of the poll for allegedly planning violent acts. But while E.U. observers acknowledged the elections were "not entirely" free and fair, they still called the ballot "an important step in the democratic process." More Space For Safety THE U.S. Seven months after the loss of the space shuttle Columbia...