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...warm water that lies between the Cape Verde Islands and Central America has been producing, on average, nearly four big storms a year, as compared with fewer than two in the preceding three decades. And that has caused him and others to snap to attention. Unlike the Pacific and Indian oceans, notes Colorado State University meteorologist William Gray, "the Atlantic is a marginal area for tropical storms. When global conditions are not right, it sees very few, and when they are, it sees quite...
...Shrestha's superiors told him to respect the do not disturb sign on the door of Charles Sobhraj's room at Kathmandu's smartest hotel. The inspector's men waited in the lobby for two days for Sobhraj to surrender like a gentleman. Instead, the half-Vietnamese, half-Indian French citizen slipped out the back with his Canadian girlfriend Marie LeClerc. They'd already crossed the border into India by the time the police finally broke into their abandoned suite...
...What can the U.S. do to win back the support of Pakistanis? To temper down, to moderate the Indian attitude toward Pakistan on the issue of the dispute of Kashmir. And also to bring balance. Pakistan had been the strategic partner; India was in the other camp in the cold war. Now all of a sudden India is the strategic partner, and there is a feeling that after the cold war Pakistan was ditched. This has to be rectified...
...insurgents crossing the line of control from Pakistan into Kashmir? 700,000 Indian troops couldn't seal the border, so I cannot also guarantee [it]. But I can guarantee one thing: there is no government sponsoring of anything that is going across the Line of Control...
...Dire Expectations Your article "Bloody Monday," on the Aug. 25 bombings in Bombay, noted that some officials believe the explosions were part of a campaign by Indian Muslims reacting to discrimination by Hindus [Sept. 8]. Mutual hatred forms the basis of the lives of millions of people in South Asia. The recent so-called stabilization measures between Pakistan and India are nothing more than a slogan to cover the leaders' mismanagement of affairs. Every decade we see officials of both nations calling for peace. But the drama always ends with the slaughter of poor people, Muslims and Hindus, on both...