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...achievements. But now the agreement is severely threatened, just as events in Somalia have brought the Administration's foreign-policy competence under new questioning. And the timing is no coincidence. Clinton may have thought that by ruling out an immediate U.S. pullout from Somalia after the Oct. 3 fire fight in Mogadishu, which claimed 18 American lives, he was demonstrating that the U.S. would not cut and run if some of its soldiers were killed. But by setting a March 31 deadline for withdrawal, no matter what, he seems to have initially sent the opposite message to the Haitian military...
...largely stayed out of day-to-day politics since his retirement after one term in office in 1997, and ill health means he routinely declines all requests for interviews or comments these days. Mandela has occasionally - and often obliquely - chided his successors, particularly when the Mbeki-Zuma fight was at its height. But he has also made plain that his loyalty to the ANC remains unwavering, and during the latest campaign appeared twice with Zuma at election rallies, including a final mass rally at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg last Sunday...
...eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. The government claims that he, along with four others, was part of a terrorist cell that was plotting to assassinate Bolivia's first indigenous President as well as other high government officials. "He went to Santa Cruz because he wanted to fight for autonomy of that region, which he said was his new and most important task," says Rozsa's close friend, Zoltan Brady, in an article published by the Croatian news site Evening Paper on Monday. Autonomy has become the central demand of the Bolivia's eastern lowlands, where the predominantly white...
You’d be surprised at what can happen when you spend two hours a hotel suite. In the Kirkland House Drama Society’s production of Suites—based on a collection of Neil Simon plays—four sets of characters love, fight, and forgive in four different storylines that all take place in a hotel suite. Alcohol flows, expletives fly, and arguments rage—check out all the drama (and a surprise cross-dressing guest star) after the jump...
...country's 25-year civil war after tens of thousands of civilians who had been trapped in a narrow combat zone in the country's north for over two months escaped the iron grip of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on April 20. But more fighting is in store before that end can be reached. It will take weeks, if not longer, to capture or kill the over 500 hardcore Tigers - including leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, who is holed up deep inside the zone - ready to fight to the death. (Read a 2-minute biography on Tamil Tiger Leader...