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...falcon country; he twice survived purges by keeping his head down while those of his immediate supervisors were rolling. During the Tiananmen uprising in 1989, Wen was firmly in the camp of reformists and protodemocrats as an aide to party chief Zhao Ziyang. Zhao failed in his bid to oust authoritarian party elders during Tiananmen and has lived under house arrest ever since. Wen avoided that fate by telling interrogators he was just obeying his boss. Now he's one of China's most powerful men. "I suspect he supports political reform," says a liberal editor at a party...
...CHARGED. CARLOS FERNANDEZ, business leader who headed a two-month national strike against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez; on charges of rebellion and incitement; in Caracas. Although the strike failed to oust Chavez from power, it crippled the country's key oil industry and resulted in $4 billion in business losses. His arrest is part of a government crackdown on its political opponents...
...post-Saddam government in Baghdad could be expected to favor U.S. companies. Ahmed Chalabi, a leader of the Iraqi National Congress, the most powerful exile group, has met with U.S. oil executives and promised that American oil companies would benefit following a campaign to oust Saddam...
...Mindanao. For example, both Agus Dwikarna and Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, two prominent Indonesian militants currently under arrest in Manila for possession of explosives, did stints in Mindanao in the late 1990s. The MILF willingly provided training facilities to foreign fighters, but in the days following the war to oust the Soviets in Afghanistan, the group's hospitality was motivated more by international Islamist solidarity than by anti-Western jihad. In 2000, the Philippine military overran all of the MILF's bases?including its two biggest camps, Abubakar and Bushra, which hosted militants from overseas. But since 9/11 and especially...
Lots of people, it turns out, as war pressures grow. The Saudis have now taken the initiative in putting together a deal that leaves the door open for Saddam to accept exile but meanwhile is aimed at encouraging his generals to oust him if he doesn't. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal has discussed scenarios with Arab and European leaders and last week sat down with President George W. Bush in Washington. Though Bush's aides had already publicly embraced the option, the President for the first time came on board, declaring that should Saddam Hussein "choose...