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...almost four years later, what many hoped would be a march toward reform has slowed to a shuffle. While the TNI's 38-member faction is scheduled to withdraw from the national parliament by 2004, its political influence is growing again, partly due to the inability of President Megawati Sukarnoputri's government to fix Indonesia's many problems. Its vast business empire?the military owns or has interests in some 250 businesses, including Jakarta department stores, Bali resorts and massive land holdings nationwide, worth an estimated $3 billion?remains intact. And most importantly, say critics, the military has paid little...
David Blumenfeld had just been shot by Omar Khatib, a young member of a radical faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. His attempted murder was part of a conspiracy to kill tourists in Jerusalem in order to attract international attention to their cause; the group would claim three victims in the coming days. David was lucky. The bullet went high, grazing his scalp, and he recovered quickly and completely. Laura, meanwhile, struggled to find a way to come to terms with what she later called “my first brush with evil...
...Bonn Agreement was supposed to establish an interim government representative of all of the diverse anti-Taliban groups in Afghanistan in order to appease all of the major warlords. However, shortly before international forces arrived in Kabul last winter, the largest faction in the “Northern Alliance”—the Tajik-dominated Jamiat-e-Islami party—took over and occupied the capital. In exchange for withdrawing their forces from Kabul, Jamiat-e-Islami received the choicest cabinet positions, including the foreign, interior and defense ministries...
RUSSIA Communists Out The pro-Kremlin majority in the Duma stripped the Communist faction and its allies of the chairmanships of eight top Duma committees. In protest, the left-wing oppo-sition gave up control of the three committees they still kept. The parliament has scheduled a vote for April 19 on a draft appeal to have the Communist Party banned altogether...
Sharon's room for maneuvering--between seeking a truce and initiating hostilities--is constrained in part by the political environment in which he operates. He heads a coalition government that relies on both an ultra-right and a center-left faction. Thus he cannot lean too far in either direction without risking that one of the coalition members will quit, bringing his government down. If that were to happen, new elections would follow. With Israelis in a hawkish mood, Sharon's right-wing Likud Party would almost surely make significant electoral gains. But Sharon might not be his party...