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...bourses elsewhere, Vietnam's market has no licensed brokers, virtually no regulatory oversight, and trades often culminate with the exchange of cash for paper shares at a local tea shop. Think of it as an amorphous eBay for speculators, an ad hoc gray market that sprouted spontaneously from the pent-up desire among the Vietnamese to cash in on the country's economic boom. "It's the Wild West," says Noritaka Akamatsu, the World Bank's lead financial economist in Hanoi...
...community could indeed form a fifth column in Iraq or at least form new alliances with Iran. Beinart observed that Iraq's Shi'ites have never launched a secessionist movement. That isn't surprising, since Saddam Hussein's suppression did not allow for much sectarian expression. Much of the pent-up anger under Saddam's regime is now finding an outlet in brutal daily violence. Iran will not hesitate to support an embattled Shi'ite community with all the means at its disposal-just look at Iran's meddling in Lebanon in support of its proxy Hizballah. Isaac Gerstman...
...community could indeed form a fifth column in Iraq or at least form new alliances with Iran. Beinart observed that Iraq's Shi'ites have never launched a secessionist movement. That isn't surprising, since Saddam Hussein's suppression did not allow for much sectarian expression. Much of the pent-up anger under Saddam's regime is now finding an outlet in brutal daily violence. Iran will not hesitate to support an embattled Shi'ite community with all the means at its disposal - just look at Iran's meddling in Lebanon in support of its proxy Hizballah. Isaac Gerstman...
Amidst the screeching and bellowing of the past two weeks, Nunn has sought and held the reassuring middle octaves. In a torrent of pent-up partisan glee released by a major Reagan failure, he has refused to prophesy the end of Reaganism or the fall of the Western Alliance. "The Republic survives almost anything we do inside the Beltway," he chuckles...
...last throes of CIA-backed anti-communism in South America. When the Berlin Wall fell and Cold Warriors like Pinochet became obsolete - if not denounced - in Washington, Pinochet wisely built a fortress of legal immunity around himself before stepping down. But it couldn't withstand the level of pent-up outrage at home and abroad. In the most bizarre case, British authorities arrested Pinochet in London in 1998 on an arrest warrant issued from Spain - where prosecutors wanted to try him for allegedly ordering the execution of leftist Spaniards living in Chile in the 1970s. He was eventually released back...