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...Israel's withdrawal creates a strategic dilemma for Syria's President Hafez Assad. He had warned Israel that leaving Lebanon without a Syrian security guarantee would leave the Jewish state dangerously exposed; now he has to consider whether to allow or encourage further attacks on Israel or to keep the peace. While it doesn?t directly control Hezbollah, Syria tolerates and at times encourages the guerrillas' actions against Israel, and also acknowledges it has the power to stop them. While Assad will be tempted to allow a period of instability along the border to underscore Syria?s indispensability to Israel...
...Lebanese government has few independent options. Instead, it's bound to follow the Syrian line of refusing to negotiate a peace deal with Israel before the Israeli-Syrian conflict is resolved. But Israel and the international community are looking to Lebanon to either police its border zone or allow the U.N. to do so despite Beirut's refusal - under Syrian pressure - to guarantee Israel's security. Although the fractious religious and political divisions that tore the country apart in the '70s have not disappeared, leaders on all sides appear determined to avoid any repeat of the disastrous civil...
There are dangers that the party's vote might not pass. Earlier this month, the I.R.A. agreed to allow international inspectors access to their secret arsenals of weapons, stopping short of any commitment of disarmament. However, recent proposals about politically charged symbols--such as the name of the province's peace force and the type of flag that will fly over government buildings--have inflamed passions on both sides...
...didn't allow Deion to groove after each interception, how could we truly appreciate the calm, silent class of true role models like the other Sanders...
...when the new day dawned in Beijing Thursday, was it filled with the promise of economic reform and trade-driven prosperity? Not quite. The House of Representatives' vote on Wednesday to extend permanent normal trading partner status to China and allow its entry into the WTO may have strengthened the hand of Beijing's economic reformers, but that may not be enough to reverse the setbacks they've suffered over the past year in the factional political battles inside China's ruling Communist party. Although the reformers grouped around Prime Minister Zhu Rongji had hoped to use the market-opening...