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Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni insists that partnership is necessary for Africa to make progress. But the answer is not simply more aid. "Beggars are tolerated," he says, "but they are not partners." Last week's G-8 summit of industrialized nations in the Canadian resort village of Kananaskis took an important step toward treating Africans as partners rather than beggars. The summit's agenda, in addition to global economic recovery and the fight against terrorism, included a novel plan for African reconstruction. Under the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), African countries would undertake to establish peace...
...remember, of course, the Caroline incident? (Don't worry; neither did I.) In 1837 Canadian forces attacked a U.S. ship of that name, killed one of its passengers, set it on fire and then cast it adrift just above Niagara Falls. The British government said its forces had acted in self-defense; those on the Caroline, London claimed, were supporters of a rebellion against British rule in Canada. In an exchange of diplomatic notes, U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster argued that a nation could only justify such pre-emptive hostile action if there was a necessity "instant, overwhelming, leaving...
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...itself, adding the gallery's angular East Wing. RECOVERING. BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ, 74, Thailand's King, after a hernia operation; in Bangkok. King Bhumibol, on the throne since 1946, is the world's longest reigning monarch. FIRED. RUSSELL MILLS, 57, publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, for publishing articles critical of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien and calling for his resignation; in Ottawa. Mills was canned by the CanWest Global Communications Corp., headed by the Asper family, which has donated $161,000 to Chr?tien's party in the past five years. To protest, Ottawa Citizen journalists refused bylines for five days...
...preferably one that will show the sisters at their best. ATHLETICS Doping Doubts Allegations that an American gold medal winner at the 2000 Olympics failed a drugs test a year before emerged during a World Anti-doping Agency summit in Montreal. According to a confidential enquiry chaired by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, the unnamed athlete tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone in July 1999. The athlete was given a two-year ban in March 2000, but was exonerated on appeal in time for the U.S. Olympic trials in July. The American governing body USA Track and Field (USATF...