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...Russian helicopter in neighboring Ingushetia, after reportedly entering the area from Georgia. But this particular scene is part of Marsho (Freedom), the first-ever Chechen feature film, shot on a $14,000 budget, with a mixture of Chechen and Georgian actors, a minimum of official permission and the tacit consent of local guerrillas. During last winter's filming, Pankisi was a little-known backwater where no Georgian policeman dared tread. Now it is the center of an ominous dispute between the Kremlin and Georgia, as Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze struggles to hold together his crumbling, corruption-ridden state...
...continues to push back against Senate versions of HSD legislation because none offer him the ability to hire and fire 170,000 departmental employees at will. He insists this is the only way for efficient and proactive governance - hinting broadly that any detour from this blueprint amounts to a tacit surrender to terrorism. Meanwhile, Democrats - and representatives for the roughly 600,000 civilian Defense Department employees who currently work under existing union labor rules, and whose status could be affected by any changes leveled at new HSD staff - are fighting him tooth and nail...
...province. But the Public Security Bureau was determined to smoke out the remaining rebels, and Zhang's arrest was made a top priority. He hid in a cellar beneath an uncle's home, then fled for the Soviet border. Later, he heard that a furious official had given a tacit shoot-to-kill order to be rid of him. Zhang dubs those days "the red terror," and claims that across China house-to-house searches, arbitrary detainments and death sentences for non-political crimes were employed by a government that "felt the need to make itself feared...
...Rock"?whom authorities view as a crypto-dissident. Cui has had his share of shows canceled by authorities. But this time organizers have enlisted local and provincial authorities, including Lijiang's powerful tourism administration, as sponsors. Rock musicians performing outside the realm of state-sanctioned culture have reached a tacit accommodation with party officialdom...
...conditions that Musharraf must meet before peace talks can begin is lengthy. "As long as this undeclared war, this training, arming, financing of jihadis, and this infiltration and terrorism and sabotage continues," he says, "then any dialogue will be meaningless." And he hints that the international community has given tacit approval for action. "One major change in the last 10 days has been that the U.S., Britain and other coalition members have said publicly and forcefully that Pakistan should stop cross-border terrorism," he says. "Our Prime Minister took really radical initiatives in the past. There's no question...