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...whom the U.S. has given its blessing watched last week's raids with a sense of mounting dread. The Administration has so far withheld outright military assistance for a guerrilla campaign, and would-be recipients fear the bombings will create a false impression of progress toward Saddam's ouster. "Saddam can emerge as a hero who faced down U.S. imperialism," said Hamid Bayati, spokesman for the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, an opposition group backed by Iran. "He will attract more sympathy for Iraq among Muslims. Mounting the strikes without a political strategy to overthrow the regime could...
...Clinton accepted that he was going to be impeached but insisted he wouldn't resign or even admit to perjury because he did not believe he had lied. What he wanted now was assurance that there were enough secure votes to fend off conviction in a Senate in which ouster would require a dozen Democrats to join all the Republicans. That large a defection seemed highly unlikely. But impeachment is a world where sure things dematerialize from one day to the next. As a senior Democratic Senate staff member put it, "We were watching all of these moderate [House] Republicans...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Perhaps aware of the excitement vacuum created by his arrival at the Asian Pacific Economic Conference summit in Bill Clinton's stead, Al Gore wasted no time in insulting his hosts, throwing U.S. support behind the "brave" protesters calling for Malaysian prime minister Mahathir's ouster. Malaysian trade minister Rafidah Aziz called it "the most disgusting speech I've heard in my life." But TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister says Mahathir's is one carpet the U.S. won't stop urinating...
There's blood on the streets of Jakarta again. At least nine people were killed Friday in a frenzy of rioting that signaled how little has changed in Indonesia since the ouster of Suharto last May. Tens of thousands of anti-government students clashed with security forces as the People's Consultative Assembly voted on a series of reforms. The legislative body agreed to democratic elections next May or June, but decided that the military would be guaranteed seats in a new parliament. "The problem is that an assembly created by Suharto is now trying to define the post-Suharto...
...closing a radio station and five newspapers and purging Belgrade University of professors. But in a big surprise last week, he sacked his ruthless spymaster, JOVICA STANISIC, whose loyalists fear he may be blamed by Milosevic for the "ethnic cleansing" of much of Bosnia. That explains why, after the ouster, Stanisic said Milosevic bore primary responsibility for the work of the secret police. Why did Milosevic dump a man who may finger him for war crimes? Internal reasons: Milosevic's wife, the retrograde communist MIRA MARKOVIC, and his fascist Vice Premier, VOJISLAV SESELJ, had it in for Stanisic. Yet with...