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...spent the day touring development projects. Burma's state-controlled media announced that Khin Nyunt had been permitted to "retire for health reasons." Khin Nyunt is now under house arrest in Rangoon; last Thursday, Burma's new Foreign Minister told diplomats that he had actually been removed on suspicion of "corruption...
...down: If the U.S. has 138,000 troops in Iraq, why does it need this small number of Brits, who already have their hands full around Basra? Were the Americans going to suck them into a heavy-handed assault on Fallujah, undermining the British army's reputation? The darkest suspicion was that Blair was trying to boost George W. Bush on the eve of the U.S. election - the actress and Labour M.P. Glenda Jackson said she feared British troops were being "reduced to the level of mercenaries for a Republican White House." But the military rode to Blair's rescue...
...vigorously denied the charge, saying the group has "huge" differences with al-Qaeda and has publicly condemned the Sinai attacks. Taha Abdel Alim, a spokesman for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's government, told TIME the government believes the brotherhood was "not involved." Egyptian officials detained several dozen Bedouin on suspicion of providing explosives for the attacks but declined to speculate any further about the culprits...
...Iraq has heightened their differences. In the government's view, Labor's hostility to the war reflects all that is wrong with the leftist world view: excessive faith in the United Nations, failure to grasp the global nature of the terrorist threat, and an unwarranted suspicion of the world's most powerful nation. For Labor, the "rush to war" in Iraq exposed the blind spots in the government's foreign policy: excessive closeness to Washington ("sucking up" is Latham's term), insufficient respect for the U.N., and a wrongheaded readiness to fight other people's wars...
...gentlemen of the Fly Club have noted with suspicion a recent reversion to hut-based dwelling among the Hebrews occupying the space between their Mt. Auburn St. palace and Plympton St. President Lowell may have to be informed, members of the club’s Purity Committee indicated...