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Pakistan's Kashmir adventure may cost its government a lot more than a loss of face ?- it may hasten a Western rethink of Pakistan's value as an ally. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif finds himself caught between the international community?s demand that he end the Pakistan-backed guerrilla incursion into Indian territory, and the determination of his countrymen ?- and military ?- to fight on against their traditional enemy. Nawaz drew fire from religious, political and military leaders Monday after returning empty-handed from an emergency July 4 meeting with President Clinton. In Washington, Nawaz had promised to withdraw Pakistani-backed...
...also repeated his campaign pledge to get Israeli forces out of Lebanon within a year. And Barak vowed to implement the Wye River agreement signed - and then suspended ? by his predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu. But in a sign of possible tensions looming down the road, he also affirmed Israel?s demand for undivided sovereignty over Jerusalem, and there was no mention of ending Jewish settlement in the West Bank...
...longer tied down by children or 9-to-5 jobs. Bargains aren't the only rewards of off-season travel. There are fewer crowds and shorter lines, as well as learning opportunities and activity programs offered by hotels and cruise lines looking to fill rooms when demand...
That's the dicey part. Economic turmoil could resurface for any number of reasons. Rising interest rates in the U.S. could slow American demand for goods produced in emerging nations, stifling the recovery. And Asia could collapse again on its own, perhaps misreading this year's higher stock prices as a sign of economic health when the buoyant markets really are just the result of bargain hunting by a lot of speculators. Already there is evidence that Thailand, the first Asian domino to fall two years ago, is ready to declare victory and backpedal on key promised banking and other...
...inflation threat scary enough to push the Fed into drastic action. Prices did spike abruptly in April, but that, says Clough, was due largely to a speculative rise in industrial commodity prices that "has already lapsed." Though Asian countries are starting to recover from the crisis that knocked demand and commodity prices so far down in 1998, recovery has been too weak, in the view of board members, to sustain the early-spring increases...