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Person of the Week UNDER THE LIGHTS With the first phase of the war on terror going well, President George W. Bush is now insisting that Saddam Hussein allow U.N. weapons inspectors back into Iraq. If Saddam remains defiant, the fragile U.S.-led coalition could either splinter or be headed to Baghdad...
They are a confused splinter of our population, and they persuade nobody. The people of Afghanistan will benefit from our having been there. Can one consider American efforts to provide humanitarian aid and question that our intentions are just? Can one see children suddenly free to fly kites in the sky over Kabul and doubt there was something satanic in the oppressors we expelled...
...parliament approved a package of constitutional amendments aimed at improving ethnic Albanian rights, ending weeks of wrangling over a Western-backed peace accord. Mediators hope the changes will defuse the seven-month-old crisis that began when Albanian rebels attacked police posts along the Kosovo border. But a splinter group of rebels calling themselves the Albanian National Army remained in control of several villages and warned security forces not to enter. The group claimed responsibility for the killing of three policemen earlier in the week. ALGERIA Disastrous Toll Security forces moved in to protect government buildings in Algiers as furious...
When Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams last week announced that decommissioning would happen, he made sure he had the public backing of notable I.R.A. leaders, including those who had risked death and jail to smuggle in the guns. But other republicans were angered by the I.R.A. reversal. A splinter group, the Continuity I.R.A., said it was "the ultimate act of betrayal." Adams conceded that some of his supporters were in tears. For them, the decommissioning of I.R.A. weapons came as a bitter pill in the often painful business of making peace. But there was no question that it pushed Northern...
...Zeevi had been one of the more extreme politicians on the Israeli right, openly favoring the mass expulsion of the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza and opposing any renewed dialogue. And he was assassinated by a tiny leftist splinter group equally opposed to resuming talks. Both Zeevi and his killers had occupied the political fringes. But the fringes on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide, these days, have moved dangerously close to the mainstream...