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...stand a good chance of ruling their desperately poor, densely ) populated Muslim homeland of 110 million. Hasina, 43, is a daughter of Sheik Mujibur Rahman, the 19-year-old nation's founding father, while Khaleda, 46, is the widow of Ziaur Rahman, the South Asian country's military ruler from 1975 to 1981. Both leaders were assassinated in army revolts...
...muddles explanations of his policy. He has declared, for example, that he would be willing to accept a peaceful settlement in which Saddam withdraws from Kuwait with his military intact. Yet the President has also compared Saddam to Hitler, who is identified in the public mind as a ruler so vicious that the only solution is to destroy him. Critics charge besides that any settlement permitting the Iraqi dictator to stay in control of an army equipped with chemical, biological and eventually perhaps nuclear weapons makes nearly impossible the restoration of stability and security in the gulf area -- a restoration...
Seven months after a series of bloody riots persuaded him to agree to end 30 years of one-man rule, King Birendra Shah of Nepal last week promulgated a new constitution that reduces him to a mainly symbolic monarch. Like a British ruler, Birendra would serve as a figurehead who could act only with the approval of a council and Prime Minister. But he could still declare a national emergency following foreign aggression, deep economic crisis or armed revolt...
...looks like a 9-in. cloth-covered ruler, but a quick downward flick will send it curling around your wrist. And before you can say Slap Wrap, you are wearing the newest preteen craze. The bracelet's manufacturer, Connecticut- based Main Street Toy, sells nearly 500,000 a week (retail price...
Being a housewife is nothing to be ashamed of in Japan. Because most husbands leave their salaries and children entirely in the hands of their wives, women have wide-ranging responsibilities. It was not always thus. Traditionally, wives and children blindly obeyed the father as ruler of the roost. But postwar economic growth toppled fathers from that lofty post by imposing longer work hours that kept them from home. At the same time, modern appliances freed women from household drudgery. "Housewives can pursue their interests in a carefree manner, while men have to worry about supporting their wives and children...