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...INDIA Message to Pakistan? Amid a tense political standoff with Pakistan, India again test-fired a nuclear-capable Agni ballistic missile. India attributed the timing of the test - just before Republic Day, its biggest national holiday - to "technical" factors. Pakistan called the move "prejudicial to the pursuit of stability in our region," which has been on a war footing since the December attack on India's Parliament, blamed on Pakistani militants. As troops traded shots in Kashmir, four policemen were killed at a U.S. cultural center in Calcutta and a bomb exploded near the British High Commission in Islamabad...
...miracle child." He was plucked from the waters, like Moses from the bulrushes, by a fisherman. He became known to us by one name. To have any greater religious overtones, the tale would have to involve visits from the Virgin Mary--which some said it did. And the standoff over what to do with Elian (now 7) after the November 1999 Cuban-refugee-boat sinking that killed his mother, was as intractable as a religious schism. To his father Juan Miguel, in Cuba, the Miami relatives who took Elian in were kidnappers, buying the boy's love with chocolate milk...
Thank you, TIME, for the humor in your Notebook section of your issue on the election standoff. Reading it definitely lowered my blood pressure. EDGAR C. STUNTZ Manitowoc...
...question really is whether the Chilean military is prepared to accept democratic life, including due process of law against its own officers when they have violated the country's law or its constitution. And the emerging standoff in Santiago therefore presents the U.S. with an opportunity to reckon with a stain on its own history in Latin America, particularly in relation to Chile...
...communism, but global capitalism. The spectacle of demonstrators on the streets brandishing the same hammer-and-sickle logo that had adorned those Russian tanks must look a little bizarre to a Czech population who suffered four decades of the repression, deprivation and tragicomic absurdity of communism; indeed, the standoff between leftist demonstrators and the World Bank and IMF whose summit they're trying to disrupt may be a little farcical, but it's not without its ironies...