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...launch pads for any invasion of neighboring Iraq. SOUTH AFRICA Race War Police investigating an alleged plot by white extremists to topple the government found a cache of 26 bombs in the farming area of Keimoes in Northern Cape province. A group calling itself Warriors of the Boer Nation claimed responsibility for last month's Soweto bombings, which killed one woman. PAKISTAN Narrow Victory After some arm-twisting by military ruler Pervez Musharraf, the National Assembly chose Zafarullah Jamali as Prime Minister, the first since a 1999 military coup. Losing candidate Shah Mahmood Quereshi claimed Musharraf used threats and bribes...
...unlikely that the ambitious coup could have ever succeeded, but police say that however unrealistic, the conspiratorial nature of the documents and the arms caches are enough to raise a security threat. The Farmers' Force claims to be the "war cabinet" of the "interim government of the South African Boer Republic." Their aim, according to Document 12, is to form a white, Afrikaner state, a throwback to the republics of the Boer War era - meaning that all blacks and Asians would be "chased out." The group also branded Afrikaner politicians, such as former President F.W. de Klerk - who negotiated...
...beleaguered Van Gaal finally quit over his failure. But in a way we'll all be punished, deprived of the languid grace of Patrick Kluivert, the quick thinking of Ruud van Nistelrooy, the locomotive energy of Marc Overmars and the ice-cool defending of Frank de Boer. Other missing names from the Korea/Japan roll call were more predictable?but not any less disappointing. Classy Ghanaian defender Sammy Kuffour, scorer of the only goal in last week's Inter-Continental Cup tie, can only watch from afar as most of his Bayern Munich colleagues represent their respective countries in the World...
...purpose, of great dignity at a time of loss. Both Kipling and Winston Churchill were audible in the extraordinary speech that President Bush gave last week. When Kipling wrote those words, 100 years ago, the British Empire had been humbled in South Africa by a small group of Boer fighters who hated the overweening presence of Queen Victoria's realm. They were scruffy, hairy faced, profoundly religious in their battle against Anglo-Saxon materialism and extremely hard to find and destroy. It took no less than 300,000 men from Britain and the other dominions to overwhelm the Afrikaaner resistance...
...vixen, robbed on Vancouver film shoot of jewels worth $100,000, says she'll keep drinking and punching paparazzi until she finds culprit "PHILIP STAUFEN" Canada won't grant multilingual amnesiac a passport. Forgetting he just applied for one, he gets back in line and applies again FRANK DE BOER Captain of Dutch national soccer team banned after testing positive for nandrolone. In Holland, that was the best he could score...