Word: pavelic
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...premature to celebrate the Taliban's demise, warns Moscow Times commentator Pavel Felgenhauer. They simply retreated from Afghanistan's cities because they couldn't defend them against U.S. air power, and equally important, because they could no longer ensure food supplies for the civilian population. That responsibility, and the anger that will come if it is not met, now falls to the West, and the Taliban can return to the drug economy, which it had abandoned in the search for legitimacy. "Now the Taliban - no longer a government seeking international recognition but an anti-Western guerrilla force - can go straight...
...PAVEL WOLBERG/AP Argument: A Palestinian woman tries to enter occupied Jenin...
...plans to use their considerable stores of anthrax - for the simple reason that nuclear and chemical warheads were more reliable weapons of mass destruction. "Bioweapons could kill hundreds of thousands or no one at all, depending on the weather and other factors that are hard to predict," writes commentator Pavel Felgenhauer. Still, he adds, "The inaccuracy and unpredictability of bioweapons makes them the perfect terrorist weapon that may kill few, but is guaranteed to terrify...
...Spain's Real Madrid for a reported $65 million; in Madrid. Besides his incredible performance for the national team in the 1998 World Cup, Zidane, or Zizou, has been playing with champion Italian football team Juventus since 1996. The superstar midfielder will be replaced by Lazio's Czech favorite Pavel Nedved. DIED. MORDECAI RICHLER, 70, author and screenwriter; in Montreal. Among his many achievements, the caustic Canadian had been twice short-listed for the Booker Prize and appointed to the Order of Canada. See Eulogy. DIED. HANNELORE KOHL, 68, wife of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; in Ludwigshafen, Germany...
...theory and the turbulent reality of Putin's Russia. NTV has shone a spotlight on this divide, while state networks feign not to see it. The Kremlin would clearly like to turn NTV's spotlight off. The first news item was the return home from a Swiss jail of Pavel Borodin, the high-ranking Russian official who a few years ago found a Kremlin job for the then out-of-work Vladimir Putin. Borodin, who is being investigated in Switzerland on money-laundering charges, had been released on $3 million bail. The other main item was the assassination...