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Meanwhile, at least one Estrada ally was believed to be plotting to incite violence that would help the President justify use of his emergency powers to strengthen his grip on the military. According to a retired military officer, Estrada had planned to replace Chief of Staff Reyes with Calimlim. That plan collapsed when General Calimlim joined with Reyes in turning his back on Estrada...
...mistresses and illegitimate offspring. In the mid-'80s, the Elite and the Church banded together to help organize Manila's masses against Marcos, a moment of triumph they have never forgotten. The fact that a high percentage of Filipinos loved Estrada was exasperating. Even more inconvenient was his grip on the Senate, which seemed to ensure that he would stay in power. The solution: to bring hundreds of thousands of Filipinos onto Manila's streets. But the Philippine polity is 77 million-strong. Was this a revolution of the Filipino people - or of a few hundred thousand Filipinos prompted...
Caught in the war's grip are 51 million Congolese. The International Rescue Committee, a group based in New York City that helps people fleeing war and violence, estimates that in the 30 months since the war broke out, more than 2 million people have died as a result of fighting, most of them from preventable diseases and malnutrition. At least a third of the deaths have been children under five. Kabila's death last week may have got the most headlines, but it is not the country's first war-related casualty, and it is unlikely...
...There would certainly be no shortage of suspects in the slaying of a man whose grip on power depended on the nimble manipulation of ethnic, political and regional rivalries. But early speculation is that the assassination plot may have originated in his own military, grown weary of his endless exhortations to fight on in a civil war that has drawn in six neighboring states and been likened to World War I. Some reports suggest that the shooting occurred as a group of generals confronted Kabila after he'd reportedly tried to sack them. Many observers believe the prospects for ending...
...forgiven for thinking we lost the Gulf War. After all, ten years to the day after it began, Saddam Hussein is still in power, his grip stronger than ever. He may even still have weapons of mass destruction. And Iraq is not a democracy. (Nor is Kuwait, for that matter, almost a decade after it was liberated by a U.S.-led alliance.) You may be forgiven for thinking that way, but you'd also be wrong. Because despite the official spin at the time, the Gulf War was not about Saddam Hussein or democracy or even weapons of mass destruction...