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...whether there was some way to avert a war by offering Saddam a way out--perhaps a plush retirement in a place like Saudi Arabia, where deposed despot Idi Amin enjoys fishing and playing his accordion. In Arab press accounts, Saddam was said to have angrily sent the envoy packing, and since then both sides have denied that any such overture ever happened. Who, indeed, would dare mention such a fate for the Butcher of Baghdad...
South Korea's leaders insist that the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula can be defused by maintaining peaceful dialogue with North Korea's erratic dictator Kim Jong Il. But black clouds fell across the South's "Sunshine Policy" last week. First, a special envoy sent by Seoul to Pyongyang was rebuffed?the Dear Leader, it seems, was too busy touring the nation's fallow farms. Then North Korea, responding to U.S. President George W. Bush's stern State of the Union address, turned its bellicose rhetoric up to 11, calling Bush "a shameless charlatan." The Stalinist country then appeared...
...neurological treatment. The strokes happened while he was in prison, but Ibrahim says he harbors no bitterness. He delights in telling how his guards panicked one day last September when he fell and broke his foot two hours before receiving a visit from the U.S. envoy. "They got mad at me," he laughs. "The ambassador was stunned to see me in a wheelchair and in pain. I assured him it was an accident." Nobody will be shocked if he is sent back to prison again. But many Egyptians realize that both Ibrahim and Egypt will enjoy a healthier future...
BRITAIN Let Off ... for Now A London court granted bail to Chechen activist Akhmed Zakayev at the start of extradition proceedings demanded by Russia. His case has become a cause célèbre: the actress Vanessa Redgrave guaranteed his €78,000 bail. Zakayev, 43, is an envoy of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov; Moscow calls him a terrorist. He was briefly detained by British authorities upon his arrival from Denmark, where he spent more than a month in custody. Copenhagen let him go, saying there wasn't enough evidence to support Russia's accusations against...
United Nations Special Envoy on AIDS/HIV in Africa Stephen Lewis told a packed Barker Center lecture room yesterday that the disease has reached “apocalyptic” proportions in Africa and that the world’s response to the pandemic thus far has been “unconscionable...