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...keen to revive relations with its old trading partner. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are mindful of growing fundamentalist and dissident oppositions that demand Muslim solidarity above all. Frustration over the lack of peace progress colors the reaction elsewhere in the Arab world. Fearing the impact of a real rift, Kuwaiti officials fanned out to make sure the rest of the gulf understood their support for U.S. military moves. "Their message," says a Western official, "was to get attention off the U.S. missile strikes and on Saddam's threat...
...administrative and organized than the government. At the same time, Afghanistan is not a fundamentalist country and will have to get used to a strict Islamic code." The most surprising aspect of the takeover is the complete disappearance of government forces, who may still control the surrounding mountains. A rift between government factions led by President Burharunuddin Rabbani and Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar had been patched up months ago, and the two controlled the infrastructure left by Najibullah's government. Red Cross officials said hundreds of fighters on both died in intense fighting outside Kabul on Thursday. "More fighting...
...ideals even when dissolving their nine-year marriage: simple, stylish, nothing vulgar. The most puzzled-over and envied couple of their industry didn't even curtail their social schedule. They co-hosted a party and afterward broke the news to gossip diva Liz Smith. Nobody is saying whether the rift was caused by the pressure of being married to a man so famous his name is synonymous with underpants, or whether the oft-repeated suggestion that the marriage was a sham is true. "They intend to make every effort to work out any issues between them, but in any event...
Although the restrictions appear to have stopped the vandalism, they have also created a rift between Thayer residents and administrators, some students said...
...direct result of the assassin's actions was to spotlight a rift that has existed in the ranks of the Jews for at least as long as the beginning of the current century, if not much earlier. The act of the assassin was shocking not because Jews never knew that such fierce differences existed within our own community, but that they could ever take on such vicious expression...