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...chieftains such as Achakzai have their own game plan against the Taliban. In Quetta, the elders of the 23 million-strong Pashtun tribe, which is spread across western Pakistan and most of Afghanistan, are moving to bring back Mohammed Zahir Shah, the deposed Afghan King who is living in Rome. In high-walled and guarded villas, these elders receive a stream of whispering chieftains, Afghan ex-army generals, mujahedin commanders and Pakistani officials--all eager recruits for an uprising against the Taliban. "It's happening so fast," says Hamad Karzai, an influential Afghan Pashtun elder who is backing...
...should be the new ruler? Most strategists hope that the Taliban will be unseated by the current strikes - and many hope to make a powerful statement by returning the country?s banished former king Mohammed Zaher Shah to power. The 86-year old Shah has been living in Rome since he was deposed in 1973; it?s not clear whether he would be interested in taking up the throne again...
...remembered as an era of corruption and vicious civil war in which tens of thousands of civilians were killed as rival factions battled for control of the capital - the West has enlisted the help of the former king, Zahir Shah, who has been living in the suburbs of Rome since being deposed in a 1973 coup. Western strategy appears to have combined a sharp increase in aid to the United Front with the matchmaking of a political alliance between them and the king. Intense negotiations last weekend produced a "Supreme Council for National Unity," under whose direction the king will...
...accomplices plant knives on the doomed planes? Perhaps not, but there remains the general problem of lost or misplaced identification badges that give workers access to restricted areas. They often end up in the wrong hands. Two were stolen in April, for instance, from the Rome hotel rooms of an American Airlines pilot and flight attendant. Under current guidelines, authorities have to report the disappearance of a badge or reissue all cards only if 5% of the total vanish, which means that at a major airport like Logan, 600 have got to be missing before anything has to be done...
...slab in our experience has anything like her laugh, which is the musical kind you might expect from a woman born in Baton Rouge, La., one whose taste is stately enough to embrace the 19th century Japanese camera portrait but frisky enough to approve paparazzi shots from the Rome of La Dolce Vita. All the same, she's forceful when she needs to be and cunning when the occasion calls for it. When your job requires you to borrow pictures from collectors who might hate to let them out of their sight, or to beat the competition in organizing...