Message-ID: <29906978.1075851605930.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:04:00 -0700 (PDT) From: the_economist-politics-admin@lists.economist.com To: jdasovic@enron.com Subject: The world this week: Politics 7th - 13th July 2001 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: The_Economist-politics-admin X-To: jdasovic X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Dasovich, Jeff (Non-Privileged)\Dasovich, Jeff\Deleted Items X-Origin: DASOVICH-J X-FileName: Dasovich, Jeff (Non-Privileged).pst Please respond to politics-reply =09[IMAGE] =09 [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] ADVANCED SEARCH [IMAGE] [IMAGE= ] =09[IMAGE]=09 =09[IMAGE] Thursday July 12th 2001 Subscribe | E-mail & Mobile Editi= ons | Screensaver [IMAGE] [IMAGE]=09 [IMAGE] OPINION WORLD BUSINESS FINANCE SCIENCE PEOPLE = BOOKS & ARTS MARKETS DIVERSIONS [IMAGE] [IMAGE][IMAGE] [IMAGE][I= MAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE]Subscribe to Economist.com to= day and save 33% Click here to take advantage of Economist.com for US$39 -= a saving of over 33% on the regular price of US$59. 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[IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE]=09[IMAGE]=09[IMAGE]=09[= IMAGE]=09Politics this week July 12th 2001 From The Economist print edition= Portents As General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan and the Indian prime = minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, prepared to discuss peace for Kashmir, 15 p= eople died in clashes in the Indian part of the disputed territory. See ar= ticle: It's good to talk E+ Gary Condit, an American congressman, admitte= d having covered up his affair with a missing intern, Chandra Levy. The pol= ice later searched the Democrat's apartment-11 weeks after Miss Levy had di= sappeared. See article: Secrets, lies and hubris Squatters invaded land= on the edge of Johannesburg. A court ordered them to leave and the South A= frican government, anxious to differentiate itself from Zimbabwe, sent poli= ce to evict them. See article: Space invaders E+ Riots in Jamaica = AP Violence erupted in Jamaica. The government called out the army = after 25 people had been killed, most of them in gun battles between police= and gangs with political links. See article: Burning E+ A row broke out= in America after scientists announced that they had created human embryos = in order to harvest stem cells. President George Bush has still not decided= whether to let federal money go to stem-cell research. Chile's appeal cou= rt ruled that General Augusto Pinochet was mentally unfit to stand trial on= human-rights charges, bringing to an end a lengthy legal saga. See articl= e: He's demented E+ Meta politics Reuters Albania's prime m= inister, Ilir Meta, and his Socialists were handsomely returned to power in= a general election. See article: On the road to normality E+ In his nat= ive city of Split, huge flag-waving crowds welcomed Goran Ivanisevic, the w= ild-card Croatian winner of the men's singles at Wimbledon. See article: G= oran Ivanisevic British and Irish leaders agonised together for days try= ing to save the crumbling peace process in Northern Ireland. The northern E= nglish city of Bradford saw Britain's worst race riots for years, between w= hites and (mainly British-born) Asians. See article: Alone, together E+ = Magistrates investigating President Jacques Chirac's use of dubious funds q= uestioned the French president's daughter Claude, an adviser on the media t= o her father. See article: Gather round the trough China on top Hong K= ong's legislature passed a law that would allow the Chinese government in B= eijing to sack the territory's leader. Pro-democracy members of the legisla= ture said the law eroded the autonomy of the former British colony. A mov= e to vote Sri Lanka's minority government out of office was thwarted when P= resident Chandrika Kumaratunga suspended parliament until September 7th. I= n a new surge of violence in Nepal, where the royal family was murdered in = June, some 40 policemen were killed by Maoist gangs. Japan turned down pl= eas by South Korea and China to correct "distortions" in school textbooks d= ealing with its Asian conquests. South Korea broke off its (very limited) m= ilitary ties with Japan. Africa's new union Reuters African= heads of government gathered in Lusaka for the 37th and final meeting of t= he Organisation of African Unity. The group will be known in future as the = African Union, with, it is said, a commission, central bank and parliament.= Amara Essy, a former foreign minister of C?te d'Ivoire, was elected secret= ary-general. In a breakthrough at the Burundi peace talks, chaired by Nels= on Mandela, the country's 19 political parties were said to have agreed tha= t Pierre Buyoya, a Tutsi, should remain president for the first 18 months o= f a new three-year transitional government. A Hutu politician would be vice= -president, and their roles would be reversed half-way through the term. On= ce a ceasefire has been agreed, South Africa, Nigeria and others will send = peacekeepers. In the latest of a string of political killings in Zambia, = Paul Tembo, a former ally of President Frederick Chiluba who had defected t= o an opposition party, was shot dead a few hours before he was due to testi= fy to a corruption inquiry. He had been expected to implicate several minis= ters. Demolition tactics The United States joined the European Union in c= ondemning Israel for demolishing 17 Palestinian houses in Rafah refugee cam= p in the Gaza strip. Earlier, Israel had destroyed 14 houses under construc= tion in a refugee camp in Jerusalem. See article: Post-mortem on Black Oct= ober Israel, Hizbullah and the United Nations were involved in a row ove= r a videotape taken at the scene of the abduction of three Israeli soldiers= last year. The UN is prepared to show Israel the footage, but only on the = condition that the faces of Hizbullah militants are obscured. A leading E= gyptian feminist, Nawal el-Saadawi, was accused of apostasy by a lawyer for= allegedly saying the haj pilgrimage had pagan roots. A Cairo court is bein= g asked to enforce her separation from her Muslim husband of 37 years. The = case has been adjourned. Science & Technology of the future = Visit Science & Technology, which features The Economist's prize-winning = science articles. Science & Technology also contains the contents of the l= atest Technology Quarterly (TQ) from The Economist. This edition of TQ exp= lores streaming video on the Internet, nanotechnology, gastrobots, gene seq= uencing and much more... . 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