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Good job on Bush--the best I've read. For me, the key statement deals with his concern for former employees when he sold his company: he found jobs for all of them. How many candidates of either party would you trust to do the same? HERBERT NEUMAN Concord, Mass...
...NATO to protect their kin in Kosovo. In the end, though, there may be some cynical politics in play. "The campaign against the Gypsies may also be a power play by the KLA," says Anastasijevic. "That raises the question of whether the West will be willing to challenge a key player in the territory in order to save the Gypsies." Although NATO remains formally committed to protecting Kosovo?s minorities, the history of the Roma throughout Europe over the last five centuries will give the Kosovar Gypsies little cause for comfort...
...supply has grown despite falling demand, driving the price even lower." The best hope for the miners is an unforeseen catastrophe. "Right now it would take a major shock in the global economy and political system ?- such as a world war or the total collapse of a key economy ?- to give the gold price a bounce." Perhaps Russia could organize something...
...Pakistani-backed infiltrators from Indian territory after Washington had earlier threatened to cut off financial aid to the impoverished country. "Pakistan was clearly at fault here, but there may also be a significant shift under way in U.S. strategic thinking," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Pakistan was a key U.S. ally in the Cold War, but there?s a growing fear that it?s out of control. And in the long run, India?s size and technological abilities make it a far more important regional power, with which Washington needs to strengthen its relationship...
...Urged by his key allies ?- Washington and Beijing ?- to end the Kashmir incursion, Nawaz is a lonely man facing a tough choice. He can?t do without financial aid from the West or military assistance from China, but Nawaz may find it difficult to carry out the promised withdrawal under mounting pressure from Islamic fundamentalist parties and a military establishment that dominates Pakistan?s political life. For the military, maintaining a state of confrontation with India validates its central role in Pakistani society, while for the fundamentalists "liberating" predominantly Muslim Kashmir from Hindu Indian rule is a jihad. Amid rampant...