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...Minister Nawaz Sharif, tried to fire him as army chief, loyal cohorts arrested Sharif, and Musharraf declared himself the new chief executive. His first months in office were marked by contradiction and lack of vision. He required a personal loyalty oath from high court judges but spoke fondly of "consensus." His promises of economic revival and "true" democracy to replace his elected predecessor's "sham" democracy petered...
Though the condition of the river is still not ideal, the overwhelming consensus is that it is safe, and indisputably cleaner than in the not-so-distant past...
...have identified a limited number of widely known organisms that could cause disease and deaths in sufficient numbers to cripple a city or region. Smallpox is one of the most serious of these diseases." - from ?Consensus Statements of the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense,? published in the 6/9/99 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...provide urgent aid to the millions of Afghanis who face starvation, but high on agenda was a request from Afghanistan's exiled king, Zahir Shah, to send peacekeeping troops to Kabul in the event of the Taliban's collapse. King Zahir is the lynchpin of Western hopes for a consensus-based government in Kabul that could begin rebuilding the failed state of Afghanistan with international assistance. Maintaining the security of such a government in the face of multiple dangers is a task that may fall to the international community - a prospect that is sure to displease the Pentagon...
...Taliban, of course, has not yet fallen, and the U.N. Security Council focused on the issue of relief aid. But there was no consensus among council members on peacekeeping - hardly surprising, since most established armies would have no greater enthusiasm than their U.S. counterparts for such a risky deployment, and a post-Taliban Afghanistan remains a geopolitical chessboard on which the 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...