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...sociologist. "But he doesn't compare himself to him." Serdar is more relaxed (he's a diver and race-car fan) and less rigid, but ambitious nevertheless. "It is no coincidence that he has been way out front on the issue of opening the border," says one senior Western diplomat. The two men have a close, if formal, relationship. At the Denktash dinner table, talk of politics is banned. To discuss business matters, Serdar makes an appointment with his dad. "He knows what he is talking about and he is the only one with the power to deal with...
...rash of bombings and the kidnapping of American journalist Daniel Pearl?this squeeze-them-until-they-squeal approach got them nowhere. Agents from the FBI brought in for the Pearl case and the U.S. consulate bombing were also less than impressed by such techniques, according to a Western diplomat. A police officer admits that at first his men were also afraid of the extremists, who had informers inside the police force. They were also well equipped, he says, with guns smuggled across the lawless frontier with Afghanistan and money from Arab donors. "We have over 800 madrasahs in Karachi...
...Razali was being unusually blunt, it was because the events of May 30?as pieced together from the accounts of eyewitnesses and diplomats?were startlingly vicious even by this regime's own ruthless standards. That night, Suu Kyi, 57, was traveling with 300 followers in a motorcade of cars and motorbikes on a meet-the-people tour to rally support for her political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD). As her convoy weaved down an unlit country road near the hamlet of Depayin in northern Burma, it arrived at a narrow bridge over an irrigation ditch...
...This combustible mix of economic hardship, increased political activity and simmering resentment against the regime loosely resembled the conditions that led to the 1988 democracy uprising, which the military brutally crushed. "The generals saw her crowds growing larger," says a diplomat, "and decided they had to stop it." Now, Burma has been locked down. The military has shut all NLD offices nationwide, put party leaders under house arrest and closed universities?traditional flash points of protest. Witnesses to the attack are in hiding and being hunted by security forces. And the generals? Says Aung Zaw, a Burmese opposition figure...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a diplomat and scholar whose career included stints teaching government at Harvard and serving as a New York senator, died in Washington, D.C., March 26 of complications of an appendectomy...