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...March 26, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad met with President Clinton in Geneva in a failed summit on peace in the Middle East. The Syrian leader has no plans to hold such a meeting with Israeli premier Ehud Barak. This diplomatic picture speaks a thousand words of Syrian intentions...
...Florida coast. He's released from hospital the following day after treatment for dehydration and sunburn, and taken into the care of his father's uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez. Anti-Castro exiles make Elian the focus of their protests against Cuba's attendance at the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle...
Elian's plight has also given Castro, 73, life support. Last fall, el comandante's relevance was dwindling: even as he played host to a summit of Latin American and Iberian leaders, the spotlight fell instead on foreign capitalists and pro-democracy dissidents. Elian's "kidnapping" changed all that. As a result, Cuban politicos privately declare that even if Elian never returns...
...crisis is ameliorated by the fact that the opposition remains weak, and they may not even need the sympathy vote they could count on if they called snap elections. "They're more likely to wait until after they host the G7 summit in July," says Larimer. "The question is who they'll appoint as their candidate. Rather than choose a fresh face who can lead Japan into the future, they may be more tempted to opt for a safe but uninspired choice acceptable to different factions." And, of course, that might slow the pace of reform. "Remember, Obuchi himself represented...
...Rhodesia" had previously been known as "the Zimbabwe Ruins." But two decades after independence, Mugabe stands widely accused of turning his country into a validation of the monument's former name. The Zimbabwean leader lashed out at the African nation's former ruler, Britain, on Monday during a Cairo summit between E.U. and African leaders, accusing London of continuing to treat his country as a colony after the British government expressed concern over rising violence and lawlessness in Zimbabwe...