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...real name is believed to be Alexandros Giotopolous. The authorities were led to him by 17 November terrorists who confessed in return for lighter sentences. Police also confirmed that a gun confiscated from a 17 November safe house was the Colt .45 revolver used to kill a British diplomat in June 2000. MEANWHILE Good Vibrations For Babar Fans Convinced of elephantine intelligence, scientists in Namibia have discovered that - despite their big ears - elephants may talk and listen to each other with their feet. Ground tremors travel up to six km further than even the lowest rumbles - letting elephants make trunk...
...much to Gaddafi's discomfort hosted last week's meeting and will serve as the A.U.'s chairman in its first year, is also in effect running NEPAD from its South African base. "While Mbeki holds the reins, the West is ready to do business," said a Western diplomat in Durban. "When Gaddafi puts his oar in, it tends to look the other way." Apart from the Gaddafi factor, the African Union will have to figure out what to do with rogue members. "African leaders will be judged on how they deal with hard cases, not soft ones," says Tony...
...American, I want to hate this country and its contradictions. I want to believe that Sacagawea hated this country and its contradictions. But this country exists, in whole and in part, because Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark. In the land that came to be called Idaho, she acted as diplomat between her long-lost brother and the Lewis and Clark party. Why wouldn't she ask her brother and her tribe to take revenge against the men who had enslaved her? Sacagawea is a contradiction. Here in Seattle, I exist, in whole and in part, because a half-white...
...deliver. The honeymoon is over." Still, Berlusconi manages to display his domestic strength in ways that leave foreign observers perplexed. Since Ruggiero quit, the Prime Minister has taken relatively little heat for serving as interim Foreign Minister, saying he's the only man capable of reforming the diplomatic corps. Berlusconi did, however, indicate last week that he would fill that post by the end of the month. Back on the home front, the Senate approved a bill addressing Berlusconi's conflict of interest as both owner of Italy's private national television broadcasters and Prime Minister, which gives him political...
...Israel's demand to renegotiate the composition and terms of a U.N. inquiry into the events at Jenin are proving to be grist to the mill for the Palestinian PR campaign. The Israelis expressed the fear that a panel composed of one senior diplomat and two humanitarian officials would be insufficient to understand the military dimension of the problem Israel faced in Jenin, and be more inclined to reach negative conclusions on the humanitarian consequences of the operation. The Palestinians decry the Israeli demands as part of a cover-up effort. But Secretary General Kofi Annan appears inclined to accommodate...