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...full withdrawal to the 1967 borders, noting that the preamble emphasizes "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." While the meaning of the resolution may be disputed, the negotiations between former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and the Palestinian Authority in 2000 following the Camp David breakdown appear to have been guided by the 1967 borders as the starting point, with modifications to be negotiated in a quid...
...MAKGATHO MANDELA, 54, eldest son of former South African President Nelson Mandela; of AIDS-related complications; in Johannesburg. Mandela announced the cause of death at a news conference, saying AIDS, which kills 600 South Africans daily, requires public discussion--an African taboo, yet "the only way of making it appear to be a normal illness...
...away. Indeed, the calls for postponement of the elections by moderate Sunni elements such as acting President Yawer, and former U.S. favorite Adnan Pachachi - as well as wild allegations by such neighborhood leaders as Jordan's King Abdullah that one million Iranians have entered Iraq in order to vote - appear to be setting up Sunni Iraqis, and their regional allies, to question or reject the results...
...Despite the setback of losing a major sanctuary at Fallujah, the insurgents? numerical strength and capabilities appear to have grown considerably faster than have the U.S.-trained Iraqi security forces with the requisite competence and commitment to fight them. While U.S. officials originally envisaged the insurgents as numbering no more than 5,000 and saw them as comprising former regime loyalists and foreign terrorists - that estimate was later doubled, then trebled - the intelligence chief of the Allawi government, General Muhammad Abdullah Shahwani, on Monday claimed that the number of insurgents was more like 200,000 - in other words, greater than...
...Arturo Toscanini to call hers "the voice of an angel"; at her home in San Marino, a republic surrounded by central Italy. Adored from Milan's La Scala to New York's Metropolitan Opera, she once drew so many curtain calls at the Met that she finally had to appear onstage with her coat...