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...with no greater support base than his widely reviled father. Rebel movements backed by Rwanda and Uganda control half of the country, and they're urging Kabila the younger to return to a peace agreement consistently sabotaged by his father. The U.S. and other Western powers are scrambling to restrain Uganda and Rwanda, as well as Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia, which fought on Kabila's side, from seeking military advantage in the uncertainty following this week's assassination. Eternal optimists are still talking about a mooted U.N. peacekeeping mission of 5,500 troops, although its deployment is about as likely...
...campaign trail, Bush had dismissed the treaty's provisions as unverifiable and unenforceable, although his defense secretary nominee, Donald Rumsfeld, goes a lot further. Rumsfeld's complaint is that the CTBT would restrain the U.S. from developing a new generation of nuclear weapons - which is, of course, exactly what the treaty is designed to do: stop the arms race. Shalikashvili was mandated by President Clinton to meet with senators opposed to the treaty, and the result is a series of compromise proposals, such as a 10-year review and tighter verification procedures, designed to lure skeptics across the Senate floor...
...Even if there may be sharply different views on the treaty within the new Bush administration, the President-elect is unlikely to revive the issue despite Shalikashvili's warning that failure to ratify the treaty squanders an opportunity to restrain nations such as China, India and Pakistan from upgrading their nuclear arsenals. If their position on missile defense is any indicator, it is clear that the geo-strategic outlook of the officials of the new Bush administration is less concerned with existing arms-control treaties than with building a high-tech nuclear umbrella to counter whatever threats may arise...
...sign that some Albanians won't be taking no for an answer, and may be hoping to provoke a showdown with Belgrade before the Bush Administration carries out its threat to withdraw U.S. forces from the region. The new government of President Vojislav Kostunica is prepared to restrain the Yugoslav army as long as NATO remains prepared to do curb the guerrillas, but that may put Western troops on a collision course with the Albanian nationalists. There's plenty of room for more fighting inside Kosovo and elsewhere in the region, and the furor in NATO over...
...stepmother, with whom Steven had a quarrel. Steven told Michael he was going to the hospital to tell their father about it. "It was ridiculous," Michael says. "My father was at death's door, and my brother wanted to complain to him about my stepmother! I had to physically restrain him from going...