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...tricky situation facing British and Irish leaders, who, with a Wednesday deadline looming, on Tuesday entered a second day of make-or-break crisis talks on Northern Ireland?s future. "We?ve got to know that the gun will be taken out of Northern Irish politics," said Britain?s Prime Minister Tony Blair. "People will neither understand nor forgive if we don?t make this thing work... We are going to sort it out." At issue is the Unionist refusal to allow Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, into the territory?s new local government structure...
...TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "And today there are far more laws and restrictions against opposition activity." In addition, the opposition is bedeviled by the divisions in its ranks. Vuk Draskovic, the opposition leader of the 1996 protest movement who later went into Milosevic?s cabinet as deputy prime minister -- and was later fired for his dissenting views at the height of the Kosovo conflict -- dismissed Tuesday?s protest as the work of small parties of no influence. Such divisions may encourage Milosevic to pursue his trademark divide-and-rule politics. Then again, with the start of winter only...
...Tony Blair, British Prime Minister White Knight, Thinker, Crowd-Pleaser, Difference-Splitter...
...bring a camera. Inevitably, it will be buried under piles of unwashed laundry in the bottom of your closet when prime Kodak moments arise, but any photos are fun to pore through later...
Bibi was never comfortable with all this peacemaking, and now he?s bowing out as Israel?s prime minister with both guns blazing. Israeli warplanes pounded targets in Beirut and north Lebanon overnight Friday following a rocket attack on Israel by the Islamic guerrilla movement Hezbollah, and warned of more to come. Incoming prime minister Ehud Barak was not consulted on the decision, and he may prefer it that way. "Making peace with Syria, which controls Lebanon, is Barak?s priority, and he?s not going to let skirmishes with Hezbollah get in the way," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief...