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Introduced at the ARCO Forum as the youngest head of state to ever speak at the Institute of Politics, 30-year-old Joseph Kabila, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, outlined his optimistic plan for the future of his impoverished and war-torn country, calling for peace before democracy can be established...
...interests of Iran, Russia, China, Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the U.S. all compete. Even as it balanced all of these competing interests, Secretary General Kofi Annan warned that the U.N. would have to move with uncharacteristic nimbleness to avert a tragedy which, he said, would make the Congo and the Balkans look like child's play...
Similarly, nasty viral infection raging along the Afghan-Pakistani border is neither unusual nor unexpected; Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, as it is known, makes an appearance in that region each spring and summer, as ticks are its primary mode of transmission. Since March, 47 cases of the disease have been reported; at least four of those occurred in recent weeks...
...after the Sept. 11 bombings. Aid workers estimated that they would have to provide 55,000 tons a month to feed all 6 million people thought to be in need. Another threat to the refugees appeared in the Pakistan border town of Quetta, where 75 people have caught Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, an Ebola-like disease that causes victims to bleed to death from the body's orifices. Seemingly anxious to reduce...
...events of Sept. 11 were spectacular in their suddenness, their enormity and their surprise. But everyday the world is plagued by more mundane battles, fought not with high technology but with hands and fists and stones. Genocide in Rwanda. Civil strife in the Congo. Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. These events were just as much an affront to justice as were the events of Sept. 11. And thus, by the rhetoric of an attack on American values anywhere being an attack on security everywhere, they should have warranted a meaningful U.S. response...