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...Commander's stance has won support from some Fijian chiefs. They include former military commanders Ratu Epeli Ganilau, and Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, who was recently appointed High Commissioner to the U.K. His wife, Senator Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau, is the daughter of the late President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who was forced to step down in 2000; she herself was taken hostage by the rebels. All three deny rumors that they have been asked to serve in a potential alternative government. However, Ganilau told Time he has been talking to the military "when asked, on ceremonial matters." The split between...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Mary McC. Fernandez, Georgia Harbison, Ratu Kamlani, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Hannah Bloch, Barbara Burke, Tresa Chambers, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Kevin Fedarko, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn...
...this watchful winter, in this case there was no apparent evil, no enemy other than the limits of man and machines and the tension between the goals we set and the risks we take. --With reporting by Michael Duffy/Washington, Cathy Booth-Thomas/Nacogdoches; Simon Crittle, Amy Goehner, Sean Gregory, Ratu Kamlani and Julie Rawe/New York; Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi; Rita Healy/Denver; Broward Liston/Cape Canaveral; Matt Rees and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem; and Winston Ross/Spokane
...DIED. RATU SIR KAMISESE MARA, 83, founding father of Fiji who helped guide the Pacific island to independence after 96 years of British colonial rule; in Suva, Fiji. An important U.S. ally during the cold war, he served as Prime Minister for 25 years before becoming President in a 1993 coup but was forced to retire in 2000 after an armed gang held the Prime Minister and Cabinet hostage for 56 days...
...with the proud bearing of a hereditary high chief, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who has died at 83 from the effects of a stroke, towered over Fijian politics for three decades. Trained as a civil servant under British colonial rule, he helped draft a constitution that gave equal status to ethnic Fijians and Indians and in 1970 became the independent nation's first Prime Minister. After a 1987 military coup ousted Mara's left-wing political rival, he resumed the prime ministership and assented to a new constitution favoring ethnic Fijians. (He later apologized to Indo-Fijians for doing...