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...Bush's prior tacit support, analysts argue, has encouraged Chen to push the envelope on the island's status?and galvanize nationalist sentiment?in the lead-up to the presidential election next year. David Lampton, professor of China studies at Johns Hopkins University, told the Associated Press that Bush felt it was time to make clear to Chen that he "did not have a blank check to be filled out in American blood...
...kiss of death," said one Western diplomat in Belgrade. Instead, the Radical Party's main rival, the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS ), led by ex-President Vojislav Kostunica, seems more likely to forge a coalition with smaller parties. Kostunica, though a lifelong opponent of Milosevic, has a nationalist streak of his own. He took DSS out of the current government in 2001 and has spent much of the last three years complaining about anti-Serb bias in the West. A parliament in which his party and the Radicals hold the largest number of seats will almost certainly sour the country...
...only person worldwide to be convicted in relation to 9/11 - filed a motion for his immediate release. Mzoudi's trial continues this week. Right Minister SWITZERLAND The balance of power in the government shifted to the right with the election by parliament of Christoph Blocher, leader of the nationalist Swiss People's Party (SVP), to the Cabinet. Under the 44-year-old so-called magic formula, the four main political parties share seven Cabinet seats. The SVP, campaigning on an anti-immigration, anti-E.U. platform, emerged as the biggest parliamentary party in October elections. Blocher had threatened to withdraw...
...Americans, and on that basis it has drawn support and participation from elements of the Sunni community previously hostile to the dictatorship. As much as he may have been a rallying point for some supporters of the insurgency, for others who prefer to cast it as a broader nationalist and Islamist response to occupation, he was an albatross. The circumstances of his capture almost alone in a grimy bolt-hole outside his home town certainly appears to suggest that for those waging daily attacks on U.S. forces from Mosul in the north to Najaf in the south, protecting Saddam Hussein...
...Enduring Woman Madame Chiang Kai-shek [EULOGY, Nov. 3], wife of China's Nationalist leader, made use of her fluent English in a wartime address to the U.S. Congress in which she appealed for aid for her country, which was fighting Japanese invaders. TIME described that speech in a March 1, 1943, report...