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...over the capital during the funeral of slain President Laurent Kabila, whom they had backed in his war against rebels backed by Rwanda and Uganda. The Kabila family's standing in Kinshasa may be illustrated by the fact that when Laurent Kabila was shot in his office by a bodyguard, he was bundled onto a plane bound for an emergency room in far-off Zimbabwe rather than being sent for treatment in his own capital. So young Joseph apparently knows better than to rely on the local troops for his protection. Indeed, Congolese would be forgiven for thinking...
...major scandal, having been accused of conspiracy and murder. It relates to the disappearance of Kiev journalist Georgy Gongadze, who was very critical of Kuchma and is believed to have been kidnapped and killed. Several days ago the speaker of parliament revealed a tape recording made by a former bodyguard of Kuchma, which supposedly has the president meeting with senior officials and demanding in very harsh language that the journalist be killed. Opposition politicians also claim to have a videotaped confession from the bodyguard. Kuchma denies everything, and a major scandal is brewing...
Maybe a shy man needs to be a populist and promise to fight for little guys. Al Gore wasn't going to be their friend, he wasn't likely to charm them; but he could be their bodyguard and protect them from polluters, swindlers, profiteers. Gore had a crisis with politics after Vietnam. He drifted through divinity school and into journalism, but as his biographer Bill Turque notes, his longtime friends saw this as just stretching the rubber band before it yanked him back to the family business. Why else practice the tricks that help you remember people's names...
...Maybe a shy man needs to be a populist and promise to fight for little guys. Al Gore wasn't going to be their friend, he wasn't likely to charm them; but he could be their bodyguard and protect them from polluters, swindlers, profiteers. Gore had a crisis with politics after Vietnam. He drifted through divinity school and into journalism, but as his biographer Bill Turque notes, his longtime friends saw this as just stretching the rubber band before it yanked him back to the family business. Why else practice the tricks that help you remember people's names...
...Minister Ephraim Sneh to the settlement of Psagot to placate angry settlers. Sneh was met by Ron Schechner. The two are veterans of the 1976 commando operation to rescue Israeli hostages at Entebbe airport in Uganda. As they greeted each other, shots rained from Palestinian buildings nearby. Sneh's bodyguard urged him to take cover. "Look, we were together in more dangerous places than this," Schechner said. He took Sneh indoors, and the meeting went ahead as bullets slammed into the walls...