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...Much of this shadowy violence was probably perpetrated by the state itself and conceivably augured a distant leadership conflict. Some Burma watchers talk of a split between the regime's hard-liners and moderates, a wishful hypothesis that essentially boils down to two people. The so-called moderate is the ageless, reptilian Khin Nyunt, the newly fashioned "Prime Minister General," who is always conspicuously equipped with a sidearm during official visits, even to kindergartens. His rival is Than Shwe, the top general and archetypal hard-liner. To encourage unity, the Burmese military has always promoted loyalty before brains, and Than...
...right. Rajiv won office, becoming the third Nehru-Gandhi Prime Minister, but in May 1991 a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed the 46-year-old over the Indian army's 1987-90 incursion into Sri Lanka. It took six years and an internal party crisis that threatened to split Congress before Sonia, too, bent to that same Gandhian sense of obligation and agreed to take her husband's place at the head of the party...
...political logic. Despite high hopes in the Basque Country and elsewhere in Spain that ETA would declare a truce, the organization has been silent on that prospect. Zabaleta says that since a previous ETA cease-fire in 1998, which it broke 14 months later, the organization has been split between older members who would accept an unconditional truce and younger militants who would only countenance such a move if the government made concessions, such as moving ETA prisoners from jails elsewhere in Spain to those in the Basque Country. ETA may be ill-prepared to adjust to the new post...
...Split-Second Exposures
...question “IOP Political Personality Test” determined that the traditional liberal and conservative split no longer applies to nearly half of college students, who are more accurately grouped in categories defined by moral and religious attitudes...