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...Bills were paid; kit bags packed; wives, husbands and children hugged. Patriotism hung in the air, as palpable as the first chills of fall; flags sprouted on a million lapels and fluttered from a thousand taxicabs in a wounded but defiant New York. On television, the reports came from Islamabad, not as they had a decade ago from Riyadh or Baghdad or Amman. And as predecessors in his high office--including his father--had done before, George W. Bush drove from the White House to the Capitol, and in an address to Congress and the watching world, discharged the weightiest...
...grievances of the Palestinians. Russia will not expect to hear a lot of moaning from Americans about its behavior in Chechnya. Pakistan will expect some economic relief for its battered economy. (And Pakistan will get it; sources tell TIME that Japan has already offered cash and loan guarantees to Islamabad.) George Bush's war will be one of strange bedfellows...
...Kabul is bracing to pay the price for that hospitality. "Will America send rockets and bombs to hit Afghanistan?" some residents asked anxiously. In Islamabad, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan issued a warning. "If any regional or neighboring country helps the U.S. attack us," Abdul Salam Zaeef told reporters, "it would draw us into a reprisal...
...evacuated last week were relatives of two American aid workers on trial here, accused of preaching Christianity. After traveling 10,000 miles to a country where few dare to venture, the parents had to leave their daughters behind to an uncertain fate. Waiting to board a U.N. plane for Islamabad, Deborah Oddy, mother of Heather Mercer, 24, wore a black head scarf and sobbed uncontrollably. Since the Soviet invasion in 1979, this country has seen more than its share of tears. Now the frightened residents of Kabul are worried that this latest incident will bring on even more...
...Pakistani in his mid-20s, Abu Zaid (his nom de guerre), gave up a chance to study medicine in the U.S. to the dismay of his parents. Instead, he enrolled in an Islamic militant training camp in the mountains northeast of Islamabad. There he learned how to handle a gun and explosives instead of a stethoscope. "We are not fanatics," he insists in a soft, earnest voice, "but we believe it's better to sacrifice ourselves than live in an unjust world." But where is the justice in indiscriminately killing thousands of office workers, firefighters and airline passengers - Christians, Jews...