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More than 1 million troops stand toe-to-toe along the 1,800-mile India-Pakistan border, with both sides saying they will fight, if necessary. It would not take much to light this tinderbox. Experts believe another terrorist attack by Kashmiri separatists could lead India to retaliate against rebel training camps in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. Indian analysts fear that Pakistan almost surely would respond in kind, perhaps diverting Indian forces with strikes along the Pakistan-India border to the south. From there the battle could conceivably escalate to a nuclear conflict, with devastating consequences: a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency...
...mayor is murdered every three weeks or so in Colombia--Uribe became an especially vulnerable target for assassination when he declared himself the candidate who, if elected, would whip Colombia's vicious and seemingly invincible guerrilla armies. By the time the one-year campaign was over, the largest rebel group, the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC, had tried to kill Uribe at least three times, most recently by bombing his motorcade. Though the candidate emerged unscathed, the attempts on his life were a reminder that Colombia, locked more fiercely than ever in a civil war that...
Burnett doesn't care much for notoriety. He has an obstreperous side that makes him wary of fame but suits his current mission as the retrograde rebel of the music business perfectly. If the industry ticks, Burnett tacks. Take commercial radio, presumed to be the business's main artery to consumers. Most contemporary songs are market tested--not to determine whether consumers like them but to see if they turn the radio up or down; commercial-radio stations want their listeners to do neither, fearing that any reach for the dial could result in a station change. Inevitably, the edges...
...near Shibarghan before joining the military during communist rule in Afghanistan. By the mid-1980s he was in command first of a militia battalion, then of a division. His big break came with the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan in 1988-89. As the troop convoys headed home and the rebel mujahedin sharpened their knives, Dostum and his Soviet-funded army of tough Uzbek and Turkmen irregulars emerged as the only real mobile outfit the communist regime of President Najibullah could count on. "In 1989 he had a budget for 45,000 troops, but we knew he had only...
...seats after four opposition parties took no part in the vote. On the eve of the election, militant youths rioted in Tizi Ouzou, the main town of the Berber Kabylie region, where political leaders had called on voters to boycott the election. The same day militant Islamic rebels killed 25 people in Sendjas, a village in Chlef province. LIBYA Possible Offer Libyan government officials denied reports that they were offering $2.7 billion in compensation to families of victims of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 killing 270 people. A New York...