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...Moreover, the most important guarantor of any Chinese leader's power today is the military, led by men of hawkish instinct inclined to see the U.S. as an implacable...
...Bulatovic, vice president of the Belgrade-backed Socialist People's Party, calls rumors of a coup "propaganda" invented by Djukanovic to sow instability and draw NATO into the fight. "The Yugoslav army is not politically motivated," he says blandly during an interview at his mountain farm. "It is a guarantor of stability." The Yugoslav army's top commander, Colonel General Nebojsa Pavkovic, who recently commended Slobodan Milosevic for his "wise and decisive policies that have preserved the dignity of our people," says his troops have been acting in Montenegro only to prevent "the infiltration of terrorists." He wonders aloud...
...Although it's hardly a democracy, power in Syria is a complicated construct given the fact that the Assad clan, and most of its governing elite, are drawn from the ethnic Alawite minority rather than the Sunni Muslim majority, as well as the fact that the primary guarantor of power is not the electorate or even the ruling party, but the military, which propelled Hafez Assad to power in 1970 as a young air force officer at the head of a peaceful coup. Assad proved a masterful strategist, managing his country's internal power struggles, regional conflicts and the Cold...
...reclusive Pyongyang leadership to open up to the South and to the idea of economic reform. China, which remains North Korea's only significant ally, wants to show the South Koreans - from whom Beijing hopes to attract massive investment - that China, rather than the U.S., is the best guarantor of regional security. "China certainly has a lot to gain by taking the role of regional peace broker," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "And, of course, the fact that the major threat from North Korea is weapons-technology exports to countries such as Iran gives China added significance...
...listed the Norse origins of three days of the week, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Actually, the Norse are responsible for four weekday names. There is also Tuesday, named for Tyr (or Tiw in Old English), the war god, guarantor of contracts and treaties. MARLON C. RAYBURN Winnipeg...