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...decision maker," as if to say that that's all the country needs in its President. If Bush wins, it will prove once again that politics is not moral. Pascal Gendreau Paris Brink of Destruction After reading Simon Robinson's World Watch item "Slow Going in Darfur" [Sept. 6], I was very discouraged that the international community continues to balk on responding to the crisis in Sudan. One would think that after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we would have learned something. The world must act before yet another group of people is wiped out. William B. James III Galati...
...COVER STORY SUDAN A special photo report documents the tragedy in Darfur. What will it take for the world to intervene...
...Call it civil war. Call it ethnic cleansing. Call it genocide ... The reality is the same. There are people in Darfur who desperately need the help of the international community." COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State, calling on the U.N. to take action in war-torn Sudan...
...diminish. NATO's performance will be more and more judged on the way it's running its operations. We need very close relations with the U.N. We need very close relations with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. NATO should be able to play a role in Darfur. NATO's assistance would need a specific request from the U.N. and the African Union (A.U.), but I think NATO would assist technically and logistically, let's say, [supplying] the hardware to an A.U. peacekeeping force. If NATO were to receive such a request, I think NATO would answer...
...Museum began planning Sudan: Ancient Treasures - 320 objects, some of them 200,000 years old, on loan from the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum. But about three months ago the curators decided to put some more recent Sudanese artifacts on display as well: items from the western province of Darfur, where the Khartoum government and allied ethnic militias are blamed for killing 50,000 people and uprooting more than 1 million in the past 19 months. The Darfur objects - including a storage basket, toys and an ostrich-feather fan - testify to pastoral ways of life. These people make little representational...