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...negotiating table. Last week the State Department latched onto a tentative offer made by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud for the Arabs to grant Israel a full peace if the Israelis withdraw from all territory seized in the 1967 war. An Arab diplomat says the initiative "puts Sharon in a corner...[and] it signals to the U.S. government, 'If you get engaged, there are important friends in the Arab world who will work with...
There may be more to it than that. A Western diplomat in Kabul says intelligence reports indicate that Iranian agents have been seen around Khost--far to the east of where they were thought to have been most active--buying off tribal commanders in a deliberate effort to undermine Karzai. That's why the Americans thought there were "bad guys" in the region. But nobody supposes that Karzai can demand the application of American force against his rivals whenever he feels like it. "We keep telling [the government], 'Don't cry wolf,'" says a European official in Kabul. "They...
...question now being debated is whether the MILF has been importing terrorism as a matter of policy, or whether rogue elements have taken matters into their own hands. "The MILF is a loose collection of commanders and warlords, political leaders, religious people and others," says a Western diplomat. "There are certainly personal connections with Indonesia, Malaysia and the Middle East, but to see Hashim Salamat and the central committee as part of a network of terror around the world?I think the record is less clear there." The MILF is not Southeast Asia's version of the Taliban...
...regularization." That doesn't sound like much, but it raised a glimmer of hope that the government might legalize some currently underground denominations. "We hope it means underground churches will be able to register and receive government protection without having to change the way they worship," says a Western diplomat...
...linguistic abilities?he spoke seven foreign languages?led him to become a globe-trotting envoy for U.S. Presidents from Harry Truman to Richard Nixon?who appointed him deputy director of the cia in 1972. He retired after four years and in 1981 started a 10-year stint as a diplomat including three at the U.N. DIED. NANDOR HIDEGKUTI, 79, legendary Hungarian footballer who was part of the Hungarian squad that won gold at the 1952 Olympics, but was famed as a member of the"Golden Team" that inflicted on England its first defeat at home by an overseas side when...