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...easier if he needs to appoint a caretaker prime minister before the next elections take place. And, critically, under Turkey's complicated electoral laws, a party needs to win more than 10% of the national vote to qualify for any seats in parliament. While Cem would clearly like to succeed Ecevit, other parties also are interested in - and perhaps capable of - helping to shape a government. Apart from what's left of the D.S.P., they include its right-wing coalition partners, the Nationalist Action Party and the Motherland Party. On the opposition side are the center-right True Path Party...
...cards. Therefore Israel's one salvation is to get out and build a wall - a wall so high not even the birds can fly over it - and permit the Palestinians to establish their state on the other side of it, as the Saudi peace plan suggests? Few terrorists succeed in breaking through the security fence that surrounds the Gaza Strip. In fact the only reason why Israel still faces problems in that part of the country is because, against all military logic, it insists on maintaining a presence on both sides of the fence instead of withdrawing to one side...
...arresting Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, Israel may have given him the inside track in the race to succeed Yasser Arafat, argues Haaretz's Danny Rubinstein. Imprisoning Barghouti will only increase his moral authority over Palestinian militants, Rubeinstein says, and that will likely make his endorsement necessary for the success of any long-term peace agreement - once the 73-year-old Arafat has passed from the scene, the imprisoned Barghouti's importance in Palestinian politics could become the equivalent of that of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela in South Africa...
...frequently. "Just a twice-weekly contact by phone or even e-mail can make a huge difference," says Margo Hamilton of Curtailing Abuses Related to the Elderly, in Riverside County, Calif. She has seen cases of caretakers of the elderly cheating them financially and even abusing them physically. Abusers succeed, she says, when they can isolate the parent. Kids who are alert and in touch can head off problems...
...focus is now turning to the two men behind the throne: Vajpayee's low-key National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra, and Vajpayee's hard-line BJP colleague of 50 years, 72-year-old Advani. The consensus among observers and diplomats is that the hawkish Advani is preparing to succeed Vajpayee at the next national elections due by late 2004. "There is no doubt he is the Prime Minister in waiting," remarks a diplomat...