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Because of a scant written record of Estrada’s political views, Senate Democrats demanded access to internal memos Estrada wrote during his tenure in the U.S. Solicitor General’s office...
...coalition paid al-Sadr scant attention until two weeks ago, when an American helicopter tried to knock down a Shi'ite banner from a telecommunications tower in Sadr City. Al-Sadr was able to mobilize tens of thousands of Shi'ites in Baghdad's largest street protest since the end of the war. Even so, a Pentagon official in Iraq says, the CPA has not yet got the full measure of al-Sadr. With his vision of Islamic rule in Iraq, his deep hatred of Americans and his rapidly growing army, al-Sadr is, according to this official, "the most...
...kingdom?according to the Nepalese calendar it is currently the year 2060?preserves a system of feudal landlords, bonded labor and a medieval level of destitution. The Asian Development Bank estimates that 42% of the 26 million population lives below the poverty line?and Nepal's leaders have made scant effort to address the gap between the impoverished many and the privileged few. A Hindu god-king ruled Nepal as an absolute monarch until 1989. Under the current system?constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy?revolutionary ideology has taken hold. In a population living mostly in squalor, the most popular political...
...interim government, which the U.S. wanted in place sometime later this month, Coalition Provisional Authority chief L. Paul Bremer may have a case. U.S. officials want to keep the ultimate decision-making power in their hands during the transition. They are justifiably concerned that Iraqi parties have scant experience with pluralism and may mess things up. Iraq's Kurdish factions used to go to war over smuggling revenues, so you can imagine what kind of scrum there might be over Iraq's oil wealth. Anyway, the U.S. plan isn't to exclude Iraqis altogether. All the parties would have...
...Having won U.S. backing for his insistence that a Palestinian crackdown on terrorism remains the top priority, Sharon feels little pressure to commit on issues such as settlements. Abbas has shown scant ability thus far to deliver any reduction in terror. A number of Israeli commentators even speculated on whether the Israeli military's attempt last week to assassinate the Number 2 political leader of Hamas was intended to make life even more difficult for Abbas. Not that the Palestinian prime minister was making much progress. Hamas had broken off talks with Abbas even before the latest Israeli assassination strikes...