Word: chieftain
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...educated in India, Karzai is the scion of a noble Pashtun clan. He glides easily between the traditional and the modern worlds. He relishes sparring with tribal visitors, who come grumbling about their local rivals or demanding special attention. It's like the court of a traditional Afghan chieftain. Everyone has his say, but Karzai, with humor but firmness, imposes his will...
...MCGIRK HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE CAREER OF AFGHAN LEADER HAMID KARZAI FOR MONTHS AND RECENTLY SPENT A WEEK WITH HIM. He doesn't strike you as the typical thuggish warrior chieftain. He is too courtly, too intellectual. But when he was in exile in Pakistan, Hamid Karzai had an intensity that attracted all kinds of Afghans to his salons. I remember sitting at a Karzai banquet with an Afghan former communist general, a Kunduz tribal elder and a wizened chess master. Karzai listened to them as equals, and they in turn were inspired by his quiet determination. Then...
...seems far-fetched that a tribal chieftain secluded in a villa in northern Tehran, his phone lines cut and official visits banned could pose any threat to neighboring Afghanistan. Hekmatyar has been holed up in Iran since being driven out of Kabul by the Taliban in 1996, and has little support, even his one-time followers, and lacks the war chest to raise an army. Most Afghanis loathe him as the commander responsible for reducing Kabul to rubble in a fierce power struggle with rival commanders that killed tens of thousands of people in the early 1990s. But his virulent...
...during the height of the civil rights movement, Brown's stark novel sold four million copies. DIED. ANI PACHEN, 69, courageous Tibetan resistance leader who led 600 men in a guerrilla war against the invading Chinese; in Dharamsala, India. Inheriting the leadership role from her father, a former chieftain, Pachen was captured and imprisoned for 21 years after attempting in 1960 to flee to India. Her autobiography, Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun came out in 2000. RESIGNATION ANNOUNCED. Of WIM DUISENBERG, 66, Dutch first president of the European Central Bank, who will step down in July...
...concrete wall behind the Torres Memorial Hospital in the dusty village of Lamitan on the southern Philippine island of Basilan. In the middle of it is a door, only 1.5-meters high. Seven months ago, roughly 60 members of the dreaded Abu Sayyaf kidnap gang led by chieftain Abu Sabaya were barricaded inside with about 20 hostages, including three Americans, definitively surrounded by the Philippine military. Their careers as terrorists seemed to be coming to a bloody conclusion. That is, until the early evening of June 2, in circumstances that are shadowy but undoubtedly scandalous, when the Abu Sayyaf opened...