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...Despair in Zimbabwe I have watched the downward spiral in Zimbabwe for more than 20 years [The World, Dec. 8]. Robert Mugabe and his gang ensured the country's downfall, and the crippling of its citizens and its political opposition to a point where no solution is possible however hard Morgan Tsvangirai works. The world leaders (including Thabo Mbeki and most political leaders in Africa) chose to ignore the real problem: Mugabe - a corrupt and possibly mentally unstable power freak. My appeal to the world is to get into Zimbabwe now and help put this country and its struggling citizens...
...Mumbai Attacks Another heinous act of terrorism has been committed in India [The World, Dec. 8]. It is disgusting to observe that our political leaders, instead of rising above political lines in the fight against this common evil and cooperating in the investigations, indulge in political oneupmanship with an eye on the forthcoming elections. A great tragedy, apart from the loss of a large number of innocent lives, is the killing of the chief of the Anti-Terrorism Squad, Hemant Karkare. He was heading up the investigations into earlier bomb blasts and had started to reveal some startling information...
...Salazar is very closely tied to ranching and mining and very traditional, old-time Western extraction industries. We were promised that an Obama presidency would bring change." -Kieran Suckling of the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity, NPR, Dec...
...puzzler ... The Interior secretary has almost no national profile and the position is hardly one that an ambitious politician would aspire to. It's the perfect job for a politician who wants to live comfortably - and wouldn't mind being forgotten by the general public." -New York Observer, Dec...
...Nothing in his record suggests he's an ideologue. Here's a man who understands the issues, is open-minded and can see at least two sides of an issue." -Luke Popovich, spokesman for the National Mining Association, New York Times, Dec...