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...Kabila has little time for trips to the countryside these days. Since the assassination of his father three months ago thrust him into the presidency, he has toured the world - the U. S., France, Germany and the former colonial power Belgium - to ask for help in rebuilding his shattered country and to promise to abide by a peace deal to end the 33-month war there. He fired the ministers he inherited from his father, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, and promises to install a cabinet that "will work for Congo." Says a senior Western diplomat in the capital...
...peace deal signed 20 months ago by the main protagonists - and requiring a cease-fire and the deployment of U. N. observers - has begun to take hold; most analysts agree that Laurent-Désiré was the main obstacle to peace. Rwanda and Uganda have pulled back troops; Zimbabwe and Angola are beginning to do the same. By last week, the U.N. had deployed 828 observers and troops and, says Squadron Leader Paul Beard of Britain, "there's a bit of momentum building up that is getting difficult to resist...
...Moreover, any drone capable of replicating the EP-3E mission is far down the road. After all, the Air Force only now is building Global Hawk drones at $50 million a pop to replace the venerable U-2 spy planes. The new drones, capable of loitering high over hostile terrain for more than a day, should be flying real-world missions by 2010?a full half-century after the Soviet Union shot down Francis Gary Powers' U...
...though, the question is not so much what this meeting means for Sino-U.S. relations, but what it may mean for Asia as a whole. There are many regional issues that require a great deal of Sino-U.S. cooperation - North Korea, for example. South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung's "Sunshine Policy" of rapprochement with North Korea requires the support of China, the U.S., Russia and Japan. If China and the U.S. look for ways to punish each other and they stop cooperating on North Korea, that could mean the failure of President Kim's policy. Taiwan...
...M.I.T. U. to allow auditing of courses online for free. Can porn sites handle the competition...