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...Milosevic has little reason to smile over the news. Bulatovic, 52, was his trusted ally for many years. Three years ago when the government of Montenegro, Serbia's only partner in the truncated Yugoslav federation, distanced itself from Milosevic's policies, Bulatovic, himself a Montenegrin, remained firmly loyal to Belgrade. Moreover, he was not suspected of using his position to line his own pockets, unlike most of Milosevic's other cronies. Milosevic will have a difficult time finding a suitable replacement...
...reformists. "If Iran is to complete the dizzying road from theocracy to democracy," says MacLeod, "reformers must find a way to speak to the Internet generation as well as to older Iranians who feel more comfortable with Islamic traditions and like to be assured that the reform movement remains loyal to the ideas of Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution." And this is no mere subterfuge: Khatami himself is a veteran of 1979, while the reform movement's most important ideological figure may be Ayatollah Ali Montezeir, the imprisoned liberal theologian who had once been Khomeini's handpicked successor. "Although the elections...
...from clear that the gruff men in black masks seen on the tape marching Babitsky away are in fact Chechens at all. And when the liberal Yabloko faction tried Wednesday to raise questions about the incident in the Duma, they found themselves blocked by a majority loyal to acting president Vladimir Putin. "Putin himself has maintained an unseemly silence throughout this affair," says Meier...
...more likely to simply use boredom as a weapon, waiting out the crisis and letting the hijackers tire and then later offering them a way out." Judging by their demand, the hijackers appear to be affiliated with the anti-Taliban opposition, which comprises diverse ethnic minorities and forces loyal to the previous government overthrown by the Taliban in 1996. They would, no doubt, have been inspired by the recent success of the Kashmiri separatists who managed through hijacking the Indian Airlines plane to secure the release of their imprisoned leader - a success that was to some degree abetted...
...BETTY CURRIE THEN: Loyal secretary kept gifts under bed. NOW: Legal bills keep...