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...increasingly puzzled over Washington's failure to play one potentially strong card: seeking the support of Iraqi opponents to Saddam Hussein, particularly leaders of the oppressed Kurdish minority. Washington has dropped heavy hints that it would like to see Saddam overthrown, and the Kurds are among Saddam's bitterest foes. But so far there have been no calls from Washington to the dissidents. The U.S., says a spokesman for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, a Kurdish independence group, "should look more closely at the internal situation in Iraq. And this can only be done by talking to the opposition...
...with the countries it has long loved to vilify. September saw the first high-level meeting between North and South Korea; a second round of talks was conducted last month. And just days before the Moscow-Seoul accord, Pyongyang asserted its eagerness to normalize diplomatic relations with Japan, its bitterest enemy of all since the brutal Japanese occupation of the peninsula from...
Some of the bitterest clashes have taken place in schools where Hispanic- dominated councils have ejected non-Hispanic principals, leading disgruntled teachers and parents to conclude that race, not competence, was the real reason for dismissal. Language differences have only exacerbated the mounting anger and frustration. "All members of the council should speak Spanish and English," one member of a predominantly Hispanic council told Catalyst, a publication that is monitoring Chicago's decentralization efforts...
Many mid-career women blame the movement for not knowing and for emphasizing the wrong issues. The ERA and lesbian rights, while noble causes, seemed to have garnered more attention than the pressing need for child care and more flexible work schedules. The bitterest complaints come from the growing ranks of women who have reached 40 and find themselves childless, having put their careers first. Is it fair that 90% of male executives 40 and under are fathers but only 35% of their female counterparts have children? "Our generation was the human sacrifice," says Elizabeth Mehren, 42, a feature writer...
Though that progress was slight, the bombers were evidently determined to destroy it. Many Lebanese speculated that General Michel Aoun, the bitterest foe of the Arab League peace plan and the commander of fanatically loyal Christian forces in East Beirut, was behind the killing. Aoun has been outraged that the plan permits 40,000 Syrian troops to remain indefinitely in Lebanon. He had pronounced Moawad's election void and vowed to throw out the Syrians. Aoun is too weak to achieve that goal but was strong enough to cause havoc. Before the assassination, thousands of his mostly youthful supporters crowded...