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...smuggling arms. But the Iranian angle is something new. Last week senior Israeli officials detailed to TIME their evidence of an Iranian connection to the Karine A. If indeed Iran sent arms to the P.A.--which Iran emphatically denied--Arafat would appear now to have a powerful regional backer in his struggle with Israel, a development likely to work against efforts toward peace. "An Iranian-Palestinian connection is not good news," says a U.S. official in the region, with deadpan understatement...
...smuggling arms. But the Iranian angle is something new. Last week senior Israeli officials detailed to Time their evidence of an Iranian connection to the Karine A. If indeed Iran sent arms to the P.A.--which Iran emphatically denied--Arafat would appear now to have a powerful regional backer in his struggle with Israel, a development likely to work against efforts toward peace. "An Iranian-Palestinian connection is not good news," says a U.S. official in the region, with deadpan understatement...
...then vanished. The bulk of the Afghan Taliban fled in the middle of the night to avoid reprisals by the tribal elders who immediately carved up the city. On liberation day Kandahar was as chaotic as it was joyous. Non-Taliban forces led by Mullah Naqib Ullah, an Omar backer and member of the Alokzai tribe who was handed control of part of the city, skirmished with men loyal to Sherzai trying to grab their share. Meanwhile, the Pentagon said, anywhere from 5,000 to 15,000 Taliban troops--most of them Pakistanis, Chechens, Algerians, Saudis and Egyptians--remained...
Signac was also an energetic and talented writer, an avid reader and bibliophile, and an ardent backer of the avant-garde in the days when that word actually meant something. "The golden age has not passed," ran the subtitle he appended to an enormous didactic canvas, In the Time of Harmony, 1893-95. "It lies in the future." The picture set out to depict the joys of anarchist cooperation: free love, picnics, games of boule on the beach, farm labor made easy by a steam-powered reaper in the distance. What in fact lay in the future was the trenches...
...then vanished. The bulk of the Afghan Taliban fled in the middle of the night to avoid reprisals by the tribal elders who immediately carved up the city. On liberation day Kandahar was as chaotic as it was joyous. Non-Taliban forces led by Mullah Naqib Ullah, an Omar backer and member of the Alokzai tribe who was handed control of part of the city, skirmished with men loyal to Sherzai trying to grab their share. Meanwhile, the Pentagon said, anywhere from 5,000 to 15,000 Taliban troops?most of them Pakistanis, Chechens, Algerians, Saudis and Egyptians?remained...