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...reduced to near prisoner status, surviving only for certain in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem (anywhere from 200 to 600 bears); the Northern Continental Divide of Montana (400 to 500); the Selkirk population in northern Idaho (30 to 40); an enclave in northern Washington State; and, most imperiled, Montana's Cabinet-Yaak ecosystem, where perhaps two dozen survive. Lewis and Clark passed near here in 1805, south of the Cabinet Mountains, pushing hard for the Pacific then and having finally learned a little about grizzlies. It is in these remaining patches of wilderness that the endangered bears are making their last...
...ASSASSINATED. HAJI ABDUL QADIR, Vice President and Minister of Public Works in Afghanistan's transitional government; in Kabul. One of three Vice Presidents chosen to serve in the Cabinet of President Hamid Karzai's, Qadir was gunned down in his own car as he left the ministry. Qadir was the brother of rebel commander Abdul Haq, who was killed by the Taliban last year...
...many of them men from his hometown of Palembang in Sumatra?run everything from key committees in parliament to agencies such as the state workers' pension fund to the debt recovery agency. And if his opponents are to be believed, hardly a major policy decision can go through the Cabinet without his approval. The practical benefit of having friends in important government positions was vividly displayed last week in a July 4 ceremony presided over by Taufik in Palembang, where the South Sumatra Governor and the head of the state toll-road company, also a Palembang native and close Taufik...
...largest party after the billionaire media mogul entered politics in 1994. But Scajola's departure comes just six months after Foreign Minister Renato Ruggiero stepped down in a dispute over what he called the government's weak commitment to Europe. In addition to the turnover in these two cabinet posts, Berlusconi has also recently lost two key under secretaries in separate in-house spats. To opposition leader Francesco Rutelli, the resignations and policy feuds show the internal instability of Berlusconi's government. They "overpromised" during last year's election, he says, and now "they can't deliver. The honeymoon...
...presidents, to ask when he would be home for lunch. "I'll be in the car soon," Abdul Haji Qadir told his young relative. "I'm coming in maybe 15 or 20 minutes." True to his word Qadir drove out of Kabul's Ministry of Public Works - his new cabinet portfolio - at 12:40 p.m. But he never made it on to the street. Two assassins with AK-47assault rifles were waiting in the bushes shrouding the driveway. As Qadir's dark blue Land Cruiser nosed out of the white grill gates they leapt up and opened fire. Two minutes...