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...elections," says Meier. "But if reports of the ambush prove true, that could throw a wrench in the works." Once Sunday's elections are over, Russia may be more inclined to seek a political solution. Seizing Grozny is, after all, primarily of symbolic importance, since most of the Chechen rebel forces have retreated intact into the mountains. But Putin may not want to still have his army deployed in a hostile guerrilla environment six months from now when he goes to the electorate to seek the presidency...
...combat that link, De Beers, which controls 70% of the world's diamond trade, has spent the fall implementing a new set of policies designed to help keep the hard-earned money of newly engaged couples from ending up in the hands of the rebels. This fall the company has reaffirmed its commitment to trying to stop the trade and even added a bit of a spin: a sense that the boycott was aimed directly at the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA), the rebel group led by Jonas Savimbi that has been a target of largely...
...analysts calculate that UNITA made more than $2.5 billion from diamond sales between 1992 and 1997, and last year collected at least $225 million. U.N. researchers and human-rights lobbying groups put the figure far higher. By any estimation, Savimbi's 40,000-strong UNITA must be the richest rebel movement in the world...
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, so it's the kind of place that might like a rebel like Senator John McCain. In fact, the symbol of that rebellion still flies above the statehouse today. But the Confederate flag also stands for a tradition that is likely to help Texas Governor George W. Bush even more: resistance to change. Conservatives who like the established way of things have kept the state's senior Senator, Republican Strom Thurmond, in Washington for 45 years, making him the longest-serving member...
...South Carolina Republicans have yet to hear McCain's rebel yell. Their primary comes just 18 days after New Hampshire's, but last week's TIME/CNN poll of likely Republican primary voters shows that 62% of them favor Bush, vs. 15% for McCain. Because South Carolina is the second important primary test, the Arizonan badly needs a victory there to start a brush fire capable of consuming Bush's considerable advantage in money, endorsements and organization in future states. "My campaign will rise or fall depending on what happens in South Carolina," McCain told TIME...