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Some moderates have started to realize that in order to sustain public support, they will have to root out the thuggish elements themselves. "You'll never see us breaking a window or hitting a policeman," says Cassen of France's ATTAC, which boasts 30,000 paying members. "We think it's absurd and provides a means of criminalizing the movement. We're doing everything we can to marginalize the violence...
...Thus his proactive interventions on AIDS, debt relief to the developing world, and global warming. But even as he champions the developing world's most pressing causes, he manages to sustain a huge fan base among the politicians and moguls of the industrialized world. His AIDS initiative is typical: He plans to involve government, business, the treatment community and sufferers in a consultative fashion...
...Plenty has happened since the birth of the U.N. to mock that hope. But that has not deterred Kofi Annan from making it his life's work to revive and sustain it in the face of the pervasive cynicism that pervades his world. People have been beatified for less...
...Sharon told Bush he's paying a high cost politically, and if he doesn't see more stuff on the Palestinian side - such as arrests of terror suspects - he's not going to be able to sustain Israel's restraint. And now Powell will go to Arafat and say you've got to do more. Both sides will look to Powell to back up their claims of virtue, and of malfeasance on the part of their adversary. And he has to play it very carefully...
...smart money says that Israel and the Palestinians will be unable to sustain their current tenuous cease-fire. The reason? The truce arose out of tactical necessity for both sides, rather than being driven by a strategic vision. Israel's gains on the international diplomatic front by holding back from retaliating following the Tel Aviv disco bombing three weeks ago far outweigh any gains it would have derived from launching new air strikes. And for Yasser Arafat, the alternative to declaring a cease-fire was to be cut off from Western financial and diplomatic support and having his administration destroyed...