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...charges of forgery relating to the formation of his new Al Ghad (Tomorrow) Party. Despite private objections from the Bush administration, his trial is scheduled to go ahead after the election. The other prominent challenger is law professor Noaman Gomaa, 71, leader of the New Wafd Party, a nationalist group formed in 1919 that promises to liberalize the economy and enact political reforms. The Muslim Brotherhood, a banned but tolerated group with widespread appeal among Egyptians (its candidates, run as independents, constitute the biggest single opposition bloc in parliament) called on its supporters to vote - but not for a "tyrant...
That task will fall largely to Gerry Adams, who has led the group's political arm, Sinn Fein, as it evolved into Northern Ireland's largest nationalist party, aided by an I.R.A. cease-fire over most of the past decade. But Adams' effort will be difficult if splinter groups keep up the violence. "Nothing has changed," a member of a splinter group told TIME. "There is still a British presence that has to be removed." The I.R.A. will need to show the same determination to keep the peace as it once displayed to wage the war. --By Chris Thornton. With...
...members could well enter the political struggle for a united Ireland by working for Sinn Fein. In the seven years since the Good Friday Agreement brought a fragile peace, Sinn Fein has grown while the I.R.A.'s influence waned. Led by Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein is now the biggest nationalist party in Northern Ireland, with 24 seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly. And they have gradually become an influential political force in the Irish Republic, too, where they even threaten Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern's hold on working-class North Dublin. But there's also a risk that splinter...
...Hindu mobs tore down a 16th century Mughal mosque they believed to be built over Lord Ram's legendary temple; the furor over the site sparked riots that killed 2,000 people. The ASI found itself entangled in the controversy in 2003 when, under orders from the then Hindu nationalist government, it produced a grandiose, artist's impression of the buried temple, which many regarded as an incendiary political gesture rather than a serious archeological initiative...
...Many ascribe this relative amity to the fading appeal of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Hindu nationalist party that won general elections in 1997 and 1998. It rose to prominence largely by encouraging Hindu extremism, most strikingly when its supporters destroyed a mosque at Ayodhya in 1992, claiming it had been built over a Hindu temple. But since last year's electoral defeat by the Congress Party, the Indian right has disintegrated into factionalism, split between those who continue to revile Pakistan and those, like BJP president Lal Krishna Advani, who think hatred as a political strategy...