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...diplomats and journalists was allowed to make a brief, tightly controlled visit last week, but they saw little. "There are still lots of troops on the streets," says Abdukadir Sattarov, an Andijan resident. Andijan could be a turning point in the resistance to Karimov's rule. Prominent local businessmen took up arms, and the revolt could also attract the involvement of battle-hardened Uzbek fighters from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ( imu). "Andijan has in a single stroke revitalized the imu," says Alexey Malashenko of the Carnegie Moscow Center. A senior U.S. diplomat in Moscow says Karimov should "turn toward...
...Communications with Andijan were cut; foreign TV news broadcasts to Uzbekistan, including from Russia, were replaced with light entertainment. The insurrection started when a group of armed men raided a local military base for weapons, then hit the local jail. There they freed inmates, including 23 well-known local businessmen accused of belonging to Akromiya, an offshoot of the banned Islamist party Hizb ut Tahrir. The men, who denied charges of extremism, quickly emerged as leaders of the revolt. Addressing the nation Saturday, Karimov said the rebels were Islamic extremists. Ten policemen had been killed, while the "criminals" had suffered...
Radio Golf brings the cycle into the 1990s. It is set in an inner-city redevelopment office, where two black businessmen (one of them running for mayor) are seeking to clear space for a new commercial development. There are purposeful echoes of earlier plays: descendants of two characters from Gem of the Ocean (set in 1904) are on hand, as is a character from Wilson's 1960s play Two Trains Running; and Aunt Ester's home is the last one marked for demolition. The social message is more overt than most in Wilson's canon: the play is about...
...rest of the country takes part," declares McLellan. The jets bring a lot of Americans in directly--businessmen, entertainers, what not. The others can watch on TV, and that creates an open forum of national opinion that restrains bad taste or misbehavior...
Tens of thousands of Icelandic women walked off their jobs for 24 hours last week to protest "male privilege." Businessmen could not place telephone calls because most of Iceland's switchboard operators had joined their sisters on protest lines chanting, "We dare! We can! We will!" The government was temporarily leaderless because President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir had stayed away from her office to demonstrate solidarity with the striking women. Worst of all was the problem of breakfast. Many Icelandic men, having awakened to discover that their wives were refusing to prepare the morning meal, jammed restaurants...