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Bush is not a lifelong pol, and like a lot of people who found their calling relatively late, he thinks and acts instinctively. A longtime colleague says Bush's desire to find moral clarity on many issues is a reaction to his father's tendency to see the good in everybody and everything: "The old man thought he could make everybody happy. George doesn't care about making people happy. He likes to have clear choices. He wants to make clean decisions. He is very disciplined about that...
...Mugabe is returning the country to a feudal system, just like Pol Pot did in Cambodia," says John Robertson, an economist based in Harare, who predicts that Zimbabwe's economy will shrink 12% this year, which would make it the worst performer in the world. Says U.S. State Department spokesman Philip Reeker: "Mugabe has taken a country that should be prospering, that should be benefiting from its natural resources, including the resources of its own people," and has plunged it "into economic chaos and ruin...
...elected government had succeeded only in lining its own pockets since the end of absolute monarchy in 1990 resonated in the Himalayan hills. But lately, the "people's rebels" have embarked on an altogether bloodier course, inspired?according to a former rebel commander?by the tactics of Cambodia's Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. In November, the Maoists broke off three months of peace talks with Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba by launching 48 simultaneous attacks on army, police and government installations across the kingdom. This kicked off a whirlwind of atrocities that has cost nearly 2,000 lives...
...Putting a Permanent Lid on Pol Pot By ROBERT HORN When Pol Pot died peacefully in his sleep in the Cambodian jungle in 1998, survivors of his genocidal rule rued that the infamous Khmer Rouge leader never stood trial for his crimes. It turns out that some form of jungle justice may have been meted out to Brother Number One after all. Thailand's Army Commander in Chief General Surayud Chulanont claimed last week he had evidence Pol Pot had actually been poisoned. According to Surayud, intelligence and autopsy reports suggest there were traces of toxic chemicals in Pol...
...true and made him out to be a hero at the expense of others. He got in trouble again recently when he said Clinton had offered him encouragement in his gubernatorial bid, when actually he'd done quite the opposite. Reich mumbled to a Mass pol that what he'd meant to say was Clinton hadn't "discouraged...