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...Congress Party] takes a long-term view," says John Ashworth, of the IKV Pax Christi aid group and a Sudan veteran of 27 years. "They are prepared to take setbacks and retreat. They're also prepared to lie and say anything." The International Crisis Group's Sudan specialist Fouad Hikmat concurs: "Some people in the NCP say, 'There will be no referendum - instead we will burn this house.' And they can do it." One reason for the north to plan secretly to stop the south breaking away could be an understandable desire to avoid follow-on Balkanization. South Kordofan...
...away billions of dollars, much of it gleaned from illicit oil sales. A senior Bush Administration official tells TIME that the U.S. Treasury Department will soon send a team of experts to examine financial documents and interrogate Iraqi officials. Among those they wish to grill are former Finance Minister Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-Azzawi, who is expected to know about the flow of money through Iraqi banking networks into neighboring countries like Jordan and Syria, and Saddam's half brother Barzan al-Takriti, who is thought to have managed the family's fortune from Geneva. Treasury officials also have designs...
...Arafat's own Fatah organization as the culprit. Had the mainstream P.L.O. wanted to hit back at Hussein, Mayor al Masri would have been a logical target. Not only had his appointment received Jordan's tacit approval, but his family is part of the Jordanian Establishment. His elder brother Hikmat is deputy speaker of the Jordanian upper house, and his nephew Taher is Hussein's Foreign Minister...
...Syrian President Hafez Assad visited Moscow last week, his Chief of Staff, Major General Hikmat Shehabi, declared that Syria was prepared to dispatch thousands of volunteers to fight the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. Thereafter, the Israelis let it be known that they might not leave the areas in which they face Syrian forces after all. That was an apparent effort to press the Syrians to make some tangible concessions on the security question...
...rejected violence as a solution to the Palestinian problem. Part of it is born of the feeling that the Camp David accords are going nowhere. Part is an expression of anger at the bomb attacks last month that maimed the West Bank Arab mayors of Nablus and Ramallah. Argues Hikmat al-Masri, board chairman of Najah University in Nablus: "Under international law we should be protected by the Israelis. But they did not come to [Nablus Mayor] Bassam Shaka'a and ask him about the incident." Adds Rashad al-Shawwa, the mayor of Gaza: "We are against terror...