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That hopeful scenario is far from being a done deal, however. The government made no public statement about the ending of Suu Kyi's house arrest. Nor is it clear that she is truly free to say or do what she wishes. Inside the bungalow at 52 University Road last week, SLORC intelligence officers in plain clothes mingled with the visiting oppositionists, diplomats and journalists who gathered. Many of her supporters suspect that the generals are merely trying to woo foreign governments, investors and such institutions as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund by making a single concession...
Beyond that, Milosevic is reportedly willing to accept a step-by-step suspension of the sanctions against Yugoslavia, with progress dependent on compliance -- a suspend-comply-lift scenario keyed to the gradual implementation of the Bosnia peace plan. In the first phase, strategic materials would stay on the sanctions list, with the exception of an annual quota of allowed oil imports. The time frame for review remains under discussion, with Milosevic insisting on at least a year between compliance assessments. Whatever the interval, the Bildt concepts are said to insist that sanctions will be reimposed should Belgrade evade its commitments...
...will bring the former constituent republics of the old Yugoslavia together in a new kind of alignment driven by economic and cultural interests of long standing-part of a larger integration of Balkan countries that would validate an approach to the European Union. To outsiders at least, such a scenario seems unlikely -- given the bloody passions of the past...
...former boyfriend of Nicole's sometime houseguest Faye Resnick. Reichardt's testimony that Resnick's drug use had left her deeply in debt to dealers was crucial to the defense assertion the killings were meant as a message that Resnick should pay up. Ito, however, found the whole scenario to be highly speculative and refused to allow the jury to hear...
...Tennessee, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, have primaries where non-Republicans can vote, and to Powell backers, his strong showing in those states will convince party faithful that he in some ways is just like Ike: not conservative enough for their tastes but powerful enough to beat Bill Clinton. This scenario has two weaknesses. First, most Republicans think they can beat Bill Clinton without Colin Powell and could turn on Powell like a virus. Second, to give up his happily settled life to contest the G.O.P. nomination, Powell will have to see Dole's juggernaut falter -- and falter by autumn...