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...said, he did not want to be a part of the "apartheid baggage of the past." He was replaced by Van Schalkwyk, an articulate 37-year-old managerial whiz kid, whose boyish, bespectacled appearance soon earned him the tag kortbroeke, or short-pants. Van Schalkwyk has desperately tried to rub out the lingering image of the old National Party, but he has its history of hatred and oppression to contend with. His proposal of marriage to the A.N.C. could be a political kiss of death - "I wish them [the N.N.P. and the A.N.C.] a merry Christmas," says Suzman, "because...
...great leadership from Gellert,” Sullivan said. “His personality is starting to rub off on the rest of the team. He’s probably one of the most competitive guys we’ve had here in a long time...
...rejected a U.S.-proposed ceiling for strategic nuclear weapons, objecting that the proposed cap of about 2,000 warheads was still too high. The rebuff forced Under Secretary of State John Bolton to work through last week in Moscow to try to get the Russians back on board. Another rub: Bush officials tell TIME that Russian planes bombed the Republic of Georgia earlier this month as part of Moscow's offensive against Chechen rebels given safe haven by President Eduard Shevardnadze. Georgia is a U.S. ally that receives, among other assistance, CIA training for its security forces, and Washington...
...undercover unit of the border police snatched Yusef Tabeishi, an Islamic jihad activist Israel says was involved in several terror attacks. Senior officers say they will be able to extract valuable intelligence by interrogating the three men. These are also the kinds of operations that usually don't rub the Bush Administration the wrong...
...been expressed in private. "It is a dilemma for us," says a senior government official. "If the fighting in Afghanistan goes on, many more refugees are bound to try to come. But we can't be seen to be deporting hundreds of desperate Muslims." And there's the rub for Malaysia, where the relaxed visa requirements for travelers from Muslim countries?combined with what some critics describe as often less-than-vigilant immigration procedures?have made it the main Asian hub for the people-smuggling syndicates...