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...current territorial home base. And applying such force in territories where he has sought support or shelter could open up a protracted, costly and difficult conflict. The battle with Bin Laden is more likely to combine conventional military tactics with unconventional ones. Because Bin Laden is no ordinary foe...
...Middle East. Passages in the conference's draft declaration singling out Israel and Zionism for condemnation prompted the U.S. and Israel to walk out of the U.N.-sponsored event in Durban, South Africa on Monday - a move which was, in turn, harshly criticized by both friend and foe. While European nations share Washington's concern over singling out Israel at a conference intended to tackle the global legacy of racism, they're staying in Durban, at least for now, to try and reshape the outcome over the next four days...
...DIED. DONALD WOODS, 67, outspoken white South African newspaper editor and apartheid foe whose friendship with black activist Steve Biko was depicted in the 1987 film Cry Freedom; in Sutton, England. When Biko died in police custody in 1977, Woods wrote a scathing editorial blaming the government, was banned from writing and fled to exile in England where he published a biography of Biko. DIED. FRED HOYLE, 86, controversial astrophysicist who in the 1940s coined the term "big bang" to deride the theory that an explosion formed the origin of the universe, a concept now widely accepted over his "steady...
...would make China a more open society or economy, but because it would outflank their mutual enemy in Moscow. Later, as the crypto-capitalist Deng Xiaoping replaced Mao Zedong and began opening China's markets to the West, the relationship morphed from an alliance of convenience against a mutual foe into a partnership based on trade and investment...
...Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, the Senate took its swing at the topic, and unfamiliar fault lines divided longtime GOP allies. Noted abortion foe Bill Frist of Tennessee joined Utah?s Orrin Hatch in his support for federal funding, while Sam Brownback of Kansas stepped in line behind Majority Leader Trent Lott, voicing his opposition to earmarking federal funds for the controversial research...