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...point - the guerrilla movement pointedly refrained from delivering its expected salvo of Katyushka rockets into northern Israeli towns following the air raids, concentrating their fire exclusively on Israeli troops occupying Lebanese territory - but they're plainly in no hurry to relieve the mounting domestic political pressure on Barak to withdraw from Lebanon. The Israeli prime minister set himself a July deadline for withdrawing his forces, unilaterally if necessary. Barak would prefer, of course, to have negotiated security guarantees with Syria to cover that retreat. Despite ratcheting up the pressure, though, Damascus doesn't want a unilateral Israeli withdrawal. "If Israel...
...explosive political-military cocktail is back on the front burner, with Israel, Syria and the Hezbollah militia all adding their own interests to the mix - and all standing close enough to get burned. Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak came under mounting pressure Monday to either blast Hezbollah or unilaterally withdraw from Lebanon - or both - following a weekend attack by the Iran-backed guerrillas that killed the fifth Israeli soldier in two weeks...
...advance on the rebel positions there. Capturing Grozny, of course, is primarily of symbolic importance, because the object of a counterinsurgency war is less to capture territory than it is to isolate and destroy guerrilla forces. The rebels have long maintained that their game plan was always to withdraw from Grozny after making the Russians pay a heavy price for the city - which they've certainly done. "This is less a retreat than a tactical maneuver," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "The Chechens were always planning to retreat from Grozny on their own terms. Now the Russians will...
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...Washington's response to last year's Pakistani incursion onto the Indian side of the cease-fire line in the disputed territory of Kashmir marked something of a shift, in that the U.S. came down hard on its traditional ally and insisted that Pakistan withdraw. "Even then," says Rahman, "New Delhi's historical suspicion of American motives remains. India is riled by the fact that the U.S. won't treat it as a responsible nuclear power, and it deeply resents being viewed in the same category as Pakistan...