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...autobiography (Plon; 216 pages), Jean-Christophe Mitterrand argues that his father?s political ambitions determined his own fate. Despite the leftist credentials of his progressive parents - the socialist Mitterrand had married Danielle Gouze, who founded the human-rights group France Libertés - it?s difficult to imagine a familial environment more rigidly bourgeois than the one Jean-Christophe describes. The two Mitterrand boys weren?t encouraged to take part in any significant conversations and rarely dined with their parents, who were "not the sort to embrace or touch," as Jean-Christophe puts it. Communication was so formal that...
...first George W. Bush was wary of Blair, a socialist who had been Bill Clinton's soul mate. But the U.S. President judges people quickly and bluntly, and from their first meeting at Camp David last February, Bush aides confirm, his gut told him he liked Blair. There they had a long conversation about the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, whom Bush dismissed with "once a KGB man, always a KGB man." Blair had invested a lot of time getting to know Putin. He thought he was seriously trying to change Russia and suggested that Bush take a second look--which...
Reaction in Belgrade was muted. A rally hastily organized by Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia drew just 3,000 diehards. Nationalist anthems blared from loudspeakers, but the protesters soon drifted away. "Those were the days," said Petar Gracanin, a Milosevic crony who was once Yugoslavia's Defense Minister, sounding almost wistful. Close by, young Serbs ignored the fuss. "Let them have their protest," said Jelena Savic, 19, a law student, buying ice cream. "It's their last one. Thank God it's over...
...Yugoslavia's problems. The governing coalition is in the throes of collapse: last week Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia walked out of the Serbian and federal parliaments to protest the cabinet's override of the Constitutional Court's decision. The Yugoslav Prime Minister Zoran Zizic and his Montenegrin Socialist People's Party also bolted, stripping the coalition of both its federal governing partner and its majority in the federal parliament. The likely political gridlock could hasten Montenegro's split from Yugoslavia and will hamper efforts to rebuild a devastated economy. A recent World Bank report found that owing...
...INDIA Nagaland Unrest Fighting between police and demonstrators left 15 people dead in Manipur, northeast India. The rioters burned the state legislative assembly and other buildings in protest at a government extension of a four-year cease-fire with the separatist Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland. The government issued a "shoot-on-sight" order to police to enforce an indefinite curfew across the state...