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...unmanned Mars probes that they hope will culminate in a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to the Red Planet by the year 2010 ... While the American space program has been crippled since the Challenger disaster in January 1986, Soviet cosmonauts have been gaining invaluable experience aboard the Salyut and Mir space stations. And though U.S. astronauts are scheduled to return to space this September, NASA administrator James Fletcher concedes that the Soviets are now "way ahead of us in manned flight." If each nation goes its own way, he predicts, the Soviets would land humans on Mars at least five...
...side of the general. Pakistan's government blamed Kashmir militants once supported by Musharraf, now aggrieved by his neglect. Eleven days later the SAARC meeting began in Islamabad, and the initial signals were tentative at best. When Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee arrived, his Pakistani counterpart, Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, tried to greet him with a hug. Vajpayee smiled cordially but took a step back. When Vajpayee departed three days later, the hug between the two men was warm and reciprocal...
...Skeptics note that Pakistan has a habit of announcing dramatic antiterrorism moves to coincide with high-level meetings with U.S. officials. At the time of the raid, President Pervez Musharraf had recently returned from U.N. headquarters in New York City, Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali was meeting with President Bush in Washington, and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who had earlier questioned whether Musharraf had the support of the entire Pakistani military, was preparing a trip to Islamabad...
...Skeptics point out that Pakistan has a habit of announcing dramatic antiterror moves to coincide with high-level meetings with American officials. At the time of the raid, President Pervez Musharraf had just returned from the U.N. in New York City; Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali was meeting with President Bush in Washington; and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who earlier had questioned whether Musharraf had the support of the entire Pakistani military, was preparing a trip to Islamabad...
...Kandahar meeting seems quite plausible, however, given other evidence that’s come to light. For one thing, bin Laden’s “official biographer,” Hamid Mir of al Jazeera, has made indirect reference to it. Harvard lecturer and terrorism specialist Jessica Stern, a former Clinton official, writes in Foreign Affairs that Mir claims to have “‘personal knowledge’ that [Hijazi] tried to contact bin Laden in Afghanistan as early...