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...Stuck in the middle, Kashmiris have either stolidly borne up, joined the separatist militants, or been forced to find a decent life far away from family, the mother tongue and the mountains, orchards and idyllic lakes. "The militancy turned out to be a blessing for me," says Khalid. "If there had been no violence, I would have studied at home and joined the family business." Khalid's family has a substantial textile and carpet business. They could afford to buy their son freedom...
SPAIN ETA STRIKES AGAIN A caller claiming to represent the separatist group ETA gave advance warning of a car bomb that exploded near a Madrid stadium shortly before a European Champions' League football match. The attack came a day after police said they had dismantled ETA's international financial network with the arrest of 11 Batasuna Party activists. Fifteen people were slightly injured in the blast, but the match kicked off on schedule, allowing Real Madrid to qualify over Barcelona...
...battle of the subcontinental spooks is played out across the region, with the ISI and RAW busily trying to foil each other's machinations in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. They seldom do the dirty work themselves, relying instead on henchmen who are gangsters, separatist chiefs and extremists inside each other's borders...
...Trincomalee isn't your average beach resort. The navy gunboats sweeping the harbor are another. So why are hotels in this northeastern Sri Lankan town booked nearly solid these days? Blame it on the cease-fire. For years, Trincomalee's proximity to the front lines of the war against separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and its strategic value as a major deepwater harbor made it a city on edge. The war also kept visitors from some of the island's finest beaches on the little-visited eastern coast. Just six months ago, the Tigers launched a suicide attack...
...chest, apparently by Israeli troops while in the West Bank, becoming the first foreign journalist killed there since Israeli-Palestinian fighting broke out in Sept. 2000; in Ramallah. DIED. Spyros Kyprianou, 69, former President of Cyprus, who during his 11-year term stood uncompromisingly against the isle's separatist Turkish minority; in Nicosia. DIED. Irene Worth, 85, lauded actress of the British, American and Canadian stages, and screen, who won three Tony awards, the last for her role in Neil Simon's 1991 debut of Lost in Yonkers; in New York. (See Eulogy) DIED. James Tobin, 84, Yale professor emeritus...