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...past, Milosevic's opponents have usually defeated only themselves. An assortment of dissident parties won municipal elections in the winter of 1996-97 and mounted three months of daily street demonstrations to try to make their defiant ruler concede defeat. But the drive to topple the tyrant lost all steam when egocentric opposition leaders turned on one another, then squandered public trust by cutting personal deals with the regime. Kostunica will need to display uncommon skill and perseverance just to keep his argumentative alliance intact...
...past, Milosevic's opponents have usually defeated only themselves. An assortment of dissident parties won municipal elections in the winter of 1996-97 and mounted three months of daily street demonstrations to try to make their defiant ruler concede defeat. But the drive to topple the tyrant lost all steam when egocentric opposition leaders turned on one another, then squandered public trust by cutting personal deals with the regime. Kostunica will need to display uncommon skill and perseverance just to keep his argumentative alliance intact...
...brother of Deputy Prime Minister Michael Ritter. Legislators agreed to lift Marxer's parliamentary immunity to allow him to be detained. In a separate action, police searched and carted away documents from two banks, the Hypo Investment Bank and the Liechtenstein Global Trust, which is controlled by Liechtenstein's ruler, Prince Hans-Adam II, and his family. Police did not disclose why they searched the banks. A spokeswoman for the government said the Prince had supported a thorough investigation of laundering activities...
...supremely complicated religious and political game. Throughout Europe the old order of divinely sanctioned kingdoms was battling models of popular sovereignty and citizenship inspired by the Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the adolescent U.S. The Italian peninsula was a crux of this struggle. The Pope himself was a monarch, ruler of the states girdling the boot approximately from Naples to Venice, playing survival politics amid what historian Kertzer describes as "a patchwork of duchies, grand duchy, Bourbon and Savoyard kingdoms [and] Austrian outposts." Would-be nation builders plotted Italy's unification from the south and the north. Revolutionaries, writes Kertzer...
Anyone who thinks the death of Syria's ruler Hafez Assad [WORLD, June 19] has dealt a blow to peace in the Middle East is wrong. Assad wanted to force Israel to meet all his demands before the two countries resumed talks. Syria's economy is a shambles, and its people live in poverty. Assad murdered and tortured his own people. JERRY LEVY Walnut Creek, Calif...