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ABOUT A CENTURY AGO, LEO TOLSTOY REputedly remarked, "Imagine Genghis Khan with a telephone!" What the author of War and Peace had in mind, of course, was the device's military potential. But Genghis Khan as symbol stands for something much larger in the Russian psyche: a force of upheaval that can intrude as suddenly as an arctic gale or a Mongol horde. In the convulsions that wracked Moscow last week, as in the ambush that slaughtered American soldiers in distant Somalia, chaos demonstrated once more that it has long since mastered the long-distance message. Genghis Khan today...
...however, is not the most promising sign that Western governments backing him could wish for. To whatever extent that U.S. and European goodwill has aided democratization so far, the sustenance obviously needs to continue over the long haul, especially when Russian turbulence is not resounding round the world. Genghis Khan on the line is one thing; on the switches of an ICBM force, quite another...
...lamented with almost pathetic candor, "I felt really badly because I don't want to have to spend any more time on that than is absolutely necessary, because what I got elected to do was to let America look at our own problems." When the brutality of a local khan like Somalia's Mohammed Farrah Aidid rouses Americans from self-absorption, their response -- get out of there -- is as reflexive as was Bush's impulse to go into Somalia in the first place...
...caretaker Prime Minister during the three months before the election. Qureshi, a nonelected official, was imported from his home in Washington to ensure a fair campaign. He took office after Nawaz Sharif, like Bhutto three years earlier, had been forced out following a contretemps with President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, in a deal brokered by General Abdul Waheed Kakar, the army chief of staff. During his brief tenure, Qureshi cut tariffs, reformed tax collection and exposed some of the corruption that had flourished under the two preceding governments. A pre-election poll showed that 8 out of 10 Pakistanis would have...
FINANCE: How the Aga Khan Stumbled...