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...planted the BUGS, described as highly sophisticated devices capable of being activated by satellite. The Chinese paid $150 million for the now grounded airliner, which was intended to be Jiang's PERSONAL AIRCRAFT. The report promises to complicate U.S.-China relations as Jiang and President Bush prepare for a SUMMIT, scheduled for Feb. 21, in Beijing...
They have tried before. Last July, at a summit in the northern Indian city of Agra, the two leaders looked ready to achieve a historic meeting of minds. The determined general and the affable poet-politician practically embraced as they showered each other with compliments. Vajpayee called Musharraf a "distinguished son of Delhi" (where he was born), and the Pakistani leader dubbed his counterpart India's "graceful elder." They parleyed in private for hours while aides anxiously waited outside the door. But the bonhomie ran aground on Kashmir when they could not agree even on whether to call...
Though Musharraf and Vajpayee managed a handshake at a South Asian summit last weekend in Nepal, they are hardly speaking, even by long distance. So far, the historic dynamics of the India-Pakistan relationship have trumped the peaceful ambitions of these two, not the other way round. But as they work to avert a new war on the subcontinent, both the poet and the general might usefully recall how each has publicly aspired to the higher title of statesman...
KASHMIR Armies Mass Along a Disputed Border Though they shook hands in nepal at the South Asia summit, the leaders of India and Pakistan showed few signs of reducing the mutual tension that began with a Dec. 13 suicide attack on the New Delhi Parliament. The governments of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President Pervez Musharraf squared off over the activities of two Kashmir separatist groups, Lashkar-e-Tayyab and Jaish-e-Mohammed. India accused the Islamic rebel groups of responsibility for the attack and demanded that Pakistan shut them down. After both countries began massing troops along...
...Temba Tsheri Last year, Tsheri, then 15, was within 50 m of the world's highest point, the summit of Mount Everest. Weather forced him to retreat, and a careless mistake - removing his gloves to tie his boots - led to frostbite that cost him five fingers. Most kids might have stuck to their Game Boy after that, but on May 23, Tsheri became the youngest person to stand atop Everest. For an encore, the 16-year-old Nepali says, "I am going to concentrate on my studies...