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...that Bin Laden and his Taliban hosts are the likely targets of a U.S. ?jihad' against terrorism, Pakistan's government is being pulled in two directions: The Taliban is essentially Pakistan's prot?g?, and many Pakistanis are fiercely supportive of both the Afghan militia and of Bin Laden himself. But Pakistan's key traditional allies - the United States and China, which is facing a Bin Laden-backed insurgency in its Muslim western provinces - have made clear that they expect Islamabad to do its bit for the international campaign against terrorism...
...Democrats have been salivating over U.S. District Court Judge Terrence W. Boyle, 55, a prot?g? of North Carolina conservative Sen. Jesse Helms, whom Bush has tapped for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Boyle, however, may be saved by North Carolina's other senator, Democrat John Edwards. Edwards opposes Boyle, but he's holding off blocking the nomination if he can get the White House to nominate another North Carolinian to the 4th Circuit. Edwards' favorite is state Appeals Court Judge James A. Wynn, an African-American whom Helms has blocked in the past...
...good reason to covet the advice of a man whose consummate skill as foreign minister - whether dealing with the Gulf crisis or the enlargement of NATO - was playing a poor hand to maximum advantage. Although the current foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, is a firm, erudite and self-assured Primakov prot?g?, he doesn't have his tutor's strategic vision and skill, his experience or his Rolodex. Primakov's presence, both on Putin's European tour and at the funeral of Syrian president Hafez Assad, suggests the president is eager to make use of his erstwhile rival's expertise in order...
...peace is not what Shahak is bringing to Israeli politics. The left-center Labor party is worried that the Rabin prot?g? will split the ?peace camp? by siphoning off centrist Labor members. That could force Shahak, Benjamin Netanyahu or Labor leader Ehud Barak to stake out extreme positions in order to attract enough votes to form a majority -- just the sort of frenzied coalition-building that left Netanyahu beholden to hard-liners against the peace process. But nobody?s panicking yet. ?Shahak has run very well in the polls, but it's entirely as an unknown entity,? reminds TIME Jerusalem...
MOSCOW: Boris Yeltsin has been warned -- watch out for Boris Berezovsky. As Yeltsin?s prot?g? Sergei Kiriyenko sets about building a new government, the tycoon Berezovsky yesterday dealt Yeltsin a stunning political blow by being appointed secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States. ?From a standing start, Berezovsky in 10 days managed to persuade 11 presidents of former Soviet Republics to present Yeltsin with an unpalatable fait accompli,? says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. ?Berezovsky ran rings around Yeltsin...