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...There are no women walking through the market. There are girls, and there are men. There are donkeys, walking haystacks with dark, somber eyes peering out from under bundles of dried grass. There are even a few scraggly turkeys. But there are no women. In Afghanistan, the men do all the grocery shopping...
Things could get dicey for young King Abdullah, Jordan's inexperienced ruler. Islamic hard-liners already have a presence in the Jordanian parliament, entirely apart from the healthy grass-roots presence they enjoy in the country as a whole. Jordan, whose population is 65% Palestinian by birth or descent, experienced street demonstrations during the recent fighting between Israel and the Palestinians. If the U.S. broadens the scope of its upcoming military action and decides to tackle Iraq or Lebanon as well, Abdullah could see plenty of anger in his streets. Containing the unrest will be essential if he hopes...
...working that high up took some getting used to at first, but he found it peaceful, his escape," says his son Vincent, one of Camaj's three children. On days off, Camaj, a Roman Catholic Albanian, also liked to keep things clean and orderly around the house, mowing the grass, renovating the kitchen and, above all, spending time with his family, from whom he originally hid the nature of his risky job. When he started work at the World Trade Center in 1973, he told his wife he worked inside. He called her at 9:14 a.m. last Tuesday from...
...Pressure has come from the grass roots. "With this second intifadeh, there was a crisis of conscience in the Jewish community in France," says Claudine Barouhiel, a spokeswoman for Consistoire, a 200-year-old organization that represents religious French Jewish groups. Jean Kahn, Consistoire's director, is more blunt. "A lot of people in France now believe that Arafat has just one sole objective: the destruction of Israel." That sentiment has helped transform France's Jewish community into what Barouhiel calls a "much more active and militant, much more politically organized force." The shift has been evident both...
...Reality-tour sponsors boast of building a "new grass-roots internationalism." But was it titillated voyeurism or earnest solidarity that the vacationers in Zapatista-land felt as the weathered campesinos of San AndrEs Sakamch'en pulled on their ski masks? A measure of both is what keeps reality tourists coming back for more...