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Other countries have secured temporary help because of U.S. diplomatic needs. President Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia--a country plagued by violent anti-U.S. rioting since early October--stopped by the White House Sept. 22, when President Bush agreed for one year to lift 5% to 10% tariffs on 11 Indonesian goods, including copper, plywood sheeting, rattan, sorbitol sweetener and tuna. This deal was designed to deliver some help to Indonesia, with minimal impact on U.S.-based industries...
With his unflinching decision to join America's war on terrorism, Musharraf initiated one of the most dramatic U-turns in Pakistan's history. Now he sits on a powder keg. Makeshift bunkers have sprouted around embassies and government buildings in the capital of Islamabad. Heavily armed riot police ringed the city of Quetta near the Afghan border, where angry protests all last week left five people dead. Soldiers huddled behind sandbags and armored-personnel carriers patrolled the streets in restive Peshawar while young men shouted for jihad. Militants roamed through the port city of Karachi, burning, looting and clashing...
...most of this year the Bush Administration was not part of the crusade against money laundering. Pointing out this U-turn, supporters of those rules say, isn't about playing gotcha. It's about continuing to press for anti-money-laundering regulations...
...many observers in the U.S. and the Middle East, in which America is at best playing catch-up, at worst losing. President Bush, at a prime-time press conference Thursday, seemed flummoxed at lingering anti-U.S. sentiment after the bombings: "I am amazed that there is such misunderstanding of what our country is about... We've got to do a better job of making our case...
...With his unflinching decision to join America's war on terrorism, Musharraf initiated one of the most dramatic U-turns in Pakistan's history. Now he sits on a powder keg. Makeshift bunkers have sprouted around embassies and government buildings in the capital of Islamabad. Heavily armed riot police ringed the city of Quetta near the Afghan border, where angry protests all last week left five people dead. Soldiers huddled behind sandbags and armored-personnel carriers patrolled the streets in restive Peshawar while young men shouted for jihad. Militants roamed through the port city of Karachi, burning, looting and clashing...