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...announcement followed assurances by South Korea Monday that it will send food aid and nuclear technicians to the North despite feelings that Pyongyang was behind the shooting in Seoul this weekend of a prominent North Korean defector. Lee Han-young, a nephew of the first wife of North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il, was reported to be brain-dead after two gunmen shot him in the head outside a friend's apartment Saturday. Police found two shells at the site from the weapon of choice for North Korean agents, a Belgian Browning pistol. While Seoul's response...
...Serbia, however, his iron rule remained unchallenged--until last November, when the first sustained attempts to defy Milosevic began rocking the Serbian capital, Belgrade. During recent weeks, the protesters' calls for Milosevic to relinquish absolute rule have won support both at home and abroad, but so far the Serbian strongman remains unbowed. One reason is his hidden source of power...
What a pity that the Clinton administration won't let Louis Farrakhan accept either a $1 billion gift or the $250,000 that went along with the human-rights award he got from Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi last week. Unless the Nation of Islam leader manages to overturn the decision in court, we'll never know how he would have behaved as the world's first black billionaire flake. Assuming Gaddafi actually intended to hand over the loot, it would have been quite a show...
...something of a loose cannon in the eyes of his government colleagues. In a series of public statements Lebed called Mormons "scum," told a visitor not to talk "like a Jew," and suggested the position of Vice President should be re-established, with himself in the role. As a strongman, "I look more like a Vice President," he told state television. "I need more powers," he said, even though he described himself as "a semi-democrat" at best. In an indirect attack on Chernomyrdin, who retains close links with the natural-gas industry he once headed, Lebed accused the "energy...
Some Russians expect Yandarbiyev to be forced out soon by another strongman, possibly the battlefield commander Shamil Basayev, who was named last week to handle any future parleys with Moscow. But if the Chechens stand firm on Dudayev's basic demand--full independence--there will be little to discuss with the Kremlin. In spite of Yeltsin's peace maneuvers, it seems likely he will carry the burden of Chechnya into the election...