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Secretary of State Colin Powell flew to the Middle East last weekend in an effort to kick-start the U.S.-backed plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. But its fate may depend largely on one leader Powell did not plan to meet: Yasser Arafat. The Palestinian chief last month grudgingly turned over power, at least in theory, to a newly installed Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas. But top Palestinian officials tell TIME that Arafat is still fomenting opposition to the new PM. Arafat met last week with several local leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization's Fatah faction (to which Abbas also...
...however, has proven surprisingly resilient. A 1997 study by a South Korean think tank that compared North Korea to communist-bloc countries before they collapsed concluded the North could have suffered the same fate - in 1992. The regime "is surviving and will continue to survive for the time being," said Kim Sung Chull, one of the report's authors. One reason is that Kim is supported by an élite group of military officers, party cadres and security officials who haven't been as affected by the economic collapse as the general population and who see their fate linked...
...Abbas were to succeed, of course, Sharon might be in the difficult position of being forced to tip his hand on issues such as the fate of the settlements and the borders of a Palestinian state. Despite his mantra of readiness to make "painful compromises," Sharon's entire political career has been built championing the settlement movement, and nobody's expecting him to come close to offering a political deal even close to the minimum acceptable for Abbas, or any other Palestinian or Arab leader. But Sharon can rest easy that the domestic political situation in the Palestinian territories...
Those survivors who spoke to TIME are in anything but a fighting mood. They seem too occupied with absorbing their fate to plot a next move. Says Karim, the colonel: "This is very bitter. I am 39. I was brought up with Saddam's regime. I may not have liked it, but I had plans--to buy a house--and suddenly everything changed. The future is dark." Azed, the captain who ran from Suwayrah, sits in his uncle's house in Baghdad, smoking cigarettes and drinking tea. "What happened shocked everyone," he says. "We had heard about the resistance from...
Herrmann came to face a fate that seemed as inevitable as the thunderstorms at the hands of Princeton’s Thomas Pauly, who had already struck out nine batters and wound up dispatching Herrmann with a perhaps predictable ease. Herrmann’s at-bat was only his 16th of the season, and he had scarcely even made contact in his few Ivy League appearances...