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...battle to form a broad coalition, which Israelis call a "national unity government." The 72-year-old Prime Minister-elect desperately wants Labor in his coalition to provide a stable majority and forestall international concerns that the old general will kill the peace process. Labor leaders, however, are in disarray after a humiliating performance at the polls--Sharon got 62% of the popular vote, an Israeli record. Without Labor support, Sharon may have to turn hard right to form a ruling coalition. "Sharon wants a unity government," says Silvan Shalom, a Likud powerbroker. "With a narrow coalition...
...Certainly, the government would be delighted by any disarray within the group's ranks. Despite an unrelenting propaganda campaign?Beijing claims that 1,700 followers have died because of eccentric Falun Gong practices?most Chinese view the group as harmlessly kooky. Yet for the nation's control-crazed rulers, no group, not even firebrand dissidents who call for immediate political reform, is as menacing as these quiet meditators who have mounted among the most sustained protests in the history of the People's Republic...
...United States nor the United Nations, both of which turned their backs. It was the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a guerrilla army of mostly Tutsi exiles based in neighboring Uganda, led by Paul Kagame. Though outgunned and outmanned, the RPF smashed the genocidal regime, sent its remnants scurrying in disarray and seized power...
Some Democrats, naturally enough, are delighted by the prospect of Republican disarray and by the chance to send Bush an unwanted gift. Democratic leader Tom Daschle told TIME he plans to make the McCain measure, which is co-sponsored by Wisconsin Democrat Russell Feingold, one of the first bills his party takes up after Bush is sworn in. Daschle wants to start debate next month, but that may be earlier than some of his Democratic colleagues want. John Breaux, a key moderate Democrat, says he's cool to the idea of "starting with something that's polarizing...
...there are plenty of reasons to give the incoming secretary of state the benefit of any doubt. But the job will certainly be a lot more challenging than anything Powell has done until now. The Clinton administration has left U.S. foreign policy in a state of considerable disarray, which the Bush campaign vowed to rectify by developing the overarching strategic vision that was absent in the often-haphazard foreign policy of the past eight years. So there's no danger of Powell dropping the ball; the question is whether can he pick it up, reorganize the team and rewrite...