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Industrialist, parliamentarian, and suave football diplomat who brought the World Cup to South Korea, Chung Mong Joon wants you to know he's also a jock. Flying down to southern Cheju Island from Seoul to watch a football game a week before the Cup, Chung, 50, is leaning back in his seat and pointing to his left elbow, which he banged up playing basketball. He shifts his left shoulder: crushed bones and severed tendons in a ski-racing accident. Then there's the right knee fractured by a football tackle. Pointing to a scar on his right hand, he smiles...
...blacklisting of his organization by reading newspapers, although the decision was taken in March. "Civilized countries," al-Mashari said during a tightly orchestrated interview at the Saudi embassy in Sarajevo, would provide evidence before accusing organizations of a crime. "If they have evidence then let them show it." A diplomat then questioned whether anything incriminating had been found at Saudi agencies. Why have there been no arrests?" Earlier this month, Mustafa Ceric, head of the Islamic Community in Bosnia, held a press conference in which he distributed a list of dozens of agencies in the country with a note...
Increasingly, Vajpayee's hands are looking far from safe. He seems lost, forgets names--even that of Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh, a longtime colleague. A Western diplomat characterizes him as "half dead." At a rare press conference last month in Srinagar, the PM tottered onto the podium and apparently had trouble understanding questions. He asked repeatedly for whispered prompts from Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani and stumbled over his replies. Says a B.J.P. official: "He is very alert when he is functional. But there are very few hours like that, and being a Prime Minister, unfortunately, is a 24-hour...
...With an enfeebled Vajpayee at the helm, the prospect of war with Pakistan becomes more real. "Advani would really like to finish this proxy war, and perhaps do a bit more," says one diplomat. India has none of the checks and balances designed during the cold war to prevent a nuclear launch in anger. (Although India's military is comfortingly professional, nonpolitical and obedient to civilian control. The country's nukes are controlled by government scientists, and deployment orders come from the Prime Minister's office alone.) For his part, Advani denies any undue influence, or even...
...body on the other end of the seesaw is Mishra, a 70-year-old career civil servant and diplomat, who functions as the equivalent of a White House chief of staff. The fact that Mishra has survived countless calls for his removal?he's accused of wielding influence beyond his position?is testament to his pivotal role, diplomats say. Mishra is considered to be the brains behind the peace overtures of the past. His influence with Vajpayee these days waxes when the two men get away from the capital and the rest of the BJP. At a regional security conference...