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...notion died last week as reports of atrocities mounted?at least 34 police officers killed in an attack in remote Sitalpati in the midwest, five bus passengers blown apart by a bomb for defying a general strike call and a bomb blast that injured one man in the capital, Kathmandu. "This is now a serious threat to the existence of the state," says Prakash C. Lohani, a former Foreign Minister. "It is clear that the survival of the ruling class itself is at stake...
...Once guaranteed to send parents into spirals of anxiety and friends into paroxysms of envy, the Asia trek now elicits a shrugging, "Send us an e-mail when you make it to Kathmandu." Trouble is, no one seems to have told Tansy Harris, the self-absorbed heroine of Emily Barr's debut novel Backpack (Plume; 310 pages). Tansy is a glamorous young Englishwoman with glamorous friends and a glamorous media job who has no more direction in life than the location of the next line of coke. When her monstrous alcoholic mother dies, Tansy survives an overdose and decides...
...Sherpas past and present, Tashi Tenzing is confident that his people will face these challenges with the same determination as their forefathers who faced Everest. "I believe little has changed in the Sherpa heart," he writes, "for whether I meet my family and friends at Everest base camp or Kathmandu, in San Francisco or London, the bond of Sherpa kinship and tradition runs deep and strong...
...Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee immediately equated the attack to the Sept. 11 devastation in the U.S., blamed Pakistan for backing terrorists, demanded that Musharraf crack down on them and made plain that the alternative was war. Late last week the two leaders met at a regional conference in Kathmandu and even shook hands--significant in tense times--but they were still far from resolving the crisis. Musharraf talked of distinctions between terrorists and freedom fighters, while Vajpayee said he would welcome friendship as long as Pakistan prevented terrorists from "mindless violence" in India...
...Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee immediately equated the attack to the Sept. 11 devastation in the U.S., blamed Pakistan for backing terrorists, demanded that Musharraf crack down on them and made plain that the alternative was war. Late last week the two leaders met at a regional conference in Kathmandu and even shook hands?significant in tense times?but they were still far from resolving the crisis. Musharraf talked of distinctions between terrorists and freedom fighters, while Vajpayee said he would welcome friendship as long as Pakistan prevented terrorists from "mindless violence" in India...