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...self-seekers out to pocket American dollars. Even Zahir Shah, who stood to benefit most, inexplicably failed to send a personal representative. And the maneuvering in Peshawar ignores a harsh reality. When you ask four Afghan refugees who should rule their country, you get four different answers. Ghulan Sarwar, 50, favors the King. Mahmood Ayub, 25, says only the Taliban can maintain peace and proper Islam. He would go and fight for it now if he had food for his family. Twentyish Amanullah is Uzbek and says former President Burhanuddin Rabbani must rule because he is a family relative. Mohammed...
...that happens, the thinking goes, the tide will swiftly turn against the Taliban commanders. Otherwise, a major U.S.-led assault could have disastrous effects inside Afghanistan--and in neighboring Pakistan too. "We have a saying: 'To kill a louse, you needn't set fire to your jacket,'" explains Mohammed Sarwar Khan Kakar, an influential tribal leader and politician in Quetta. "In other words, to catch Osama bin Laden, you don't have to burn all Afghanistan." Despite their grievances against the Taliban's brutish rule, Pashtuns would close ranks and rally to their fellow tribesmen against...
...real opium is ignorance. By trying to choke the spread of the Internet in China [WORLD, Feb. 28], the Communist Party is stopping the spread of knowledge. Despite their attempts, communist leaders will find that China's Iron Curtain will eventually break down under the forces of freedom. TURHAN SARWAR, AGE 15 Kenner...
...hope our memory starts to fail soon and we forget all this talk about splicing a fetus' DNA to produce smart little human babies. If the technique of genetic engineering were implemented on humans, it would be the first step into Huxley's Brave New World. TURHAN SARWAR, AGE 14 Kenner...
...high cost of importing fuel will force the government to cut oil imports to the bone and allocate the tight supplies. The steel, fertilizer and railroad industries will receive priority, but even the railroads are building steam locomotives rather than more efficient, but oil-burning, diesels. Overall, says Sarwar Lateef, a respected economics journalist, the impact of the oil crisis makes India's five-year plan an exercise in "cuckoo-land optimism...