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...will be for negotiators, who gather this week in Bonn's Hotel Petersberg, to get over years of mistrust. The U.S. proposal is for a loose central government composed of an executive council run by 10 to 20 warlords and other political personages. Such a preservation of the status quo is unlikely to bring stability, even if the Afghans accepted it. The Pashtun suspect the Northern Alliance wants only to validate its power, with no intention of broadening it. The Alliance warned that the Bonn session is only "symbolic," while its commanders furtively try to outmaneuver one another. Any unity...
Parlika is used to challenging the status quo. She was imprisoned and tortured in 1979 for organizing a women's movement opposed to President Hafizullah Amin. During the Taliban years she organized a network of secret schools for girls in private apartments across the city...
...cabinet, reappointing most ministers and replacing Targamadze with one of the former Interior Minister's deputies, the debate had shifted. Parliamentary factions realigned amid deals and odd alliances, and no one could figure out who exactly was the opposition anymore. Two points of view emerged: reform vs. status quo...
...Some Saudi liberals seek U.S. support for their campaign for change. 'We hope the American presence is not just protection for the status quo,' says a businessman. 'We assume it will bring an improvement in the integrity of the government.' From Washington's viewpoint, however, pushing Fahd and family down the fast track to Westernization and democratization is a likely prescription for a Shah [of Iran]-like disaster. Swift liberalizations could easily stir religious extremists to revolt. 'If there's an internal threat to the kingdom,' says a U.S. expert on Saudi Arabia, 'it's from fundamentalists on the right...
Officials from the banking-industry-friendly Center for Freedom and Prosperity sat down with top Bush economic advisers Larry Lindsey and R. Glenn Hubbard and urged them to keep the U.S. out of the coalition and firmly support the status quo in many tax havens. The group's pitch: Americans should be free to seek out lower tax rates anywhere in the world; competition from tax havens helps keep tax rates in the U.S. down. The conservative Heritage Foundation met with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and presented a similar argument. And the C.F.P. helped Don Nickles of Oklahoma...