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...party has had to make many changes. De Klerk resigned from the post-apartheid government and the party because, he said, he did not want to be a part of the "apartheid baggage of the past." He was replaced by Van Schalkwyk, an articulate 37-year-old managerial whiz kid, whose boyish, bespectacled appearance soon earned him the tag kortbroeke, or short-pants. Van Schalkwyk has desperately tried to rub out the lingering image of the old National Party, but he has its history of hatred and oppression to contend with. His proposal of marriage to the A.N.C. could...
...shouts into his radio, "Advance forwards. We are ready to start the war now." Twenty yards to the left of the command bunker where he stands, a T-55 tank opens up with its main gun, and the assault is on. Northern Alliance artillery shells and 82-mm mortars whiz overhead as a 50-cal. gun pops individual rounds at Taliban front lines, 1,000 yds. away across a small dip in the rolling brown hills...
...this time, running not from his family but from the law. Daoudi slipped away from his apartment on the Boulevard John F. Kennedy after police across Europe started to round up the network that Beghal had assembled for his operations. (French investigators think Daoudi was the computer-and-communications whiz kid of the group.) Daoudi knew Britain well. He and Beghal had hung out there with Jerome Courtailler, one of two French brothers who had converted to Islam. For a while, Courtailler lived in south London with Zacarias Moussaoui, another French child of disappointed immigrant parents. Moussaoui grew...
...ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Key arrests include Lotfi Raissi, who allegedly helped teach the hijackers how to fly; Kamel Daoudi, a computer whiz suspected in the Paris plot; and Yasser al-Siri, who was charged in connection with the assassination of Afghan rebel leader Ahmed Shah Massoud...
...third person has to be a tech whiz; he or she will oversee the hugely expensive, long overdue, crucial information systems upgrade, code-named Trilogy. The FBI computers have to be engineered talk to each other and to INS, Customs and State computers to make sure no more terrorists get through the visa system. Problem is, with first-rate IT people able to command their own prices, even in this economy, why would anybody go to work on old-school government gear for peanuts...