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...major policy decision can go through the Cabinet without his approval. The practical benefit of having friends in important government positions was vividly displayed last week in a July 4 ceremony presided over by Taufik in Palembang, where the South Sumatra Governor and the head of the state toll-road company, also a Palembang native and close Taufik ally, signed an agreement for the construction of a $70 million toll road. The 23-kilometer highway, which will link Palembang to a nearby town, will be the first of its kind built outside the country's main island of Java...
...anxious today? If you're a Catholic mom and your son is an altar boy, what do you really know about the priest your son is assisting? If you're someone who has to cross the Golden Gate Bridge daily, what's your bigger worry? A toll hike or that slow-flying plane overhead? Anxiety is everywhere. TRISH HOOPER Portola Valley, Calif...
...accused Mugabe of being a "world-class hypocrite." Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi blocked an attempt by Mugabe to hold talks with Italian leaders. NIGERIA Hot Sahel More than 60 people died as a result of a heat wave in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, and the actual death toll could be even higher because many families in remote areas fail to register their dead before burying them within the 24-hour period customary for Muslims. Seasonal rains have failed for two months, and temperatures above 50? have been recorded in the past few weeks. Reservoirs are empty...
...international crisis. On Feb. 27, a group of Muslims firebombed a train in the western state of Gujarat murdering 58 Hindus. The reprisals against Muslims in Gujarat were fierce, unpoliced, and went on for weeks, killing some 2,000 according to human rights groups. (The official death toll, widely disbelieved, is half this.) On April 4, Vajpayee reacted with revulsion, urging Hindu rioters to rediscover "a sense of unity and brotherhood." Asked the published poet: "Burning alive men, women and children? Are we human or not? Or has a demon taken over us?" His office briefed newspapers on the likely...
...India and Pakistan to step up diplomatic pressure on the antagonists. MIDDLE EAST Car Bomb Reignites West Bank Violence A suicide bomber drove a van packed with explosives into a bus filled with soldiers in Megiddo junction in northern Israel, killing 17 passengers and injuring 40 others. The death toll is the highest number within Israel since Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's recent incursions into the West Bank. Israeli helicopter gunships opened fire with machine guns on the nearby West Bank town of Jenin and tanks rolled into surrounding neighborhoods. Tanks also destroyed much of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat...