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<br><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif" size="+1"><b>Politics this week</b><br></font>
<font SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" color="999999">November 15th 2001<br>From The Economist print edition
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<br><br><br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>War gains</b></font></div><br clear="all"><table align="right" cellpadding="0" border="0" cellspacing="0" width="164"><tr><td height="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="3"><spacer height="1" type="block"></spacer></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><spacer width="1" type="block"></spacer></td><td><table cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="1"><tr><td><img src="http://www.economist.com/images/20011117/4601WW1.jpg" width="160" height="144" alt="AP"></td></tr><tr><td align="left"><font FACE="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" SIZE="-1"><b></b></font></td></tr></table></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><spacer width="1" type="block"></spacer></td></tr><tr><td height="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="3"><spacer height="1" type="block"></spacer></td></tr></table>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">The war in <b>Afghanistan </b>turned quickly and decisively in favour of the Northern Alliance. Taliban forces in the northern half of the country retreated from all but a small pocket as the Northern Alliance captured the strategically important town of Mazar-i-Sharif and in due course the cities of Herat, Kabul, the capital, and Jalalabad. But Osama bin Laden's whereabouts remained uncertain.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34379_6627542_2_79987158_60345293_1_6d">See article:  War and politics after the fall of Kabul</a>
<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/dingbats/e5.gif" hspace="2" width="17" height="10" alt="E+"></font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Hectic <b>diplomatic efforts </b>were underway at the <font size="-1">UN </font>and elsewhere to forge agreement on a broad-based government for Afghanistan, and to assemble a multinational military force to stabilise the country.</font></p>
<br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>New York's latest tragedy</b></font></div>
<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">An <b>American Airlines </b>Airbus crashed on to a residential neighbourhood of Queens, in New York, minutes after take-off from John F. Kennedy airport. All 260 people on board were killed, and five on the ground are still missing. New Yorkers at first assumed it was another terrorist act, but the <font size="-1">FBI </font>and the Federal Aviation Administration said they had so far found no evidence of sabotage.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34378_6627542_2_79987158_60345293_1_6c">See article:  Another air crash in New York</a>
<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/dingbats/e5.gif" hspace="2" width="17" height="10" alt="E+"></font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">At a summit meeting in Crawford, Texas, President George Bush announced that he would cut the United States' <b>nuclear arsenal </b>by two-thirds over the next ten years. Russia's President Vladimir Putin said he would try to respond in kind. But the two men made it clear that they had not reached agreement on Mr Bush's plans to develop ballistic-missile defences.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34377_6627542_2_79987158_60345293_1_6b">See article:  Russia and America touch hands</a>
<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/dingbats/e5.gif" hspace="2" width="17" height="10" alt="E+"></font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Mr Bush signed a military order allowing non-Americans suspected of <b>terrorism </b>to be tried before a military commission instead of in civilian courts. At the same time, the Justice Department asked police across the United States to question 5,000 men, mostly from the Middle East, who had entered the country legally in the past two years. Civil libertarians objected.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34376_6627542_2_79987158_60345293_1_6a">See article: New powers to deal with terrorist suspects</a>
<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/dingbats/e5.gif" hspace="2" width="17" height="10" alt="E+"></font></p>
<br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>Schr&ouml;der on the edge</b></font></div>
<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Chancellor Gerhard Schr&ouml;der's government in <b>Germany </b>was on a knife edge as rebel deputies from within his ruling coalition said they would vote against a parliamentary vote of confidence tied to his offer to send troops abroad to help the United States fight terrorism.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34388_6627542_2_79987158_60345293_1_6d">See article:  A government crisis in Germany</a>
<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/dingbats/e5.gif" hspace="2" width="17" height="10" alt="E+"></font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Police in <b>Spain</b> detained 11 members of an Islamic group with suspected links to the al-Qaeda terrorist network.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">The European Commission's annual progress report on countries striving to join the <font size="-1">EU </font>hinted that there might be a &#8220;<b>big bang</b>&#8221; of up to ten applicants joining at once, perhaps as early as 2004.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34387_6627542_2_79987158_60345293_1_6c">See article:  The EU may let in ten more countries at once</a>
</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">In a bid to hurry negotiations with the <font size="-1">EU </font>along, <b>Poland's </b>new government, led by the ex-communist Democratic Left Alliance, offered concessions over migration and the sale of Polish land. </font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">A controversial project to build a hydroelectric dam at Ilisu, in south-eastern <b>Turkey</b>, was thrown into doubt when a British building company and an Italian engineering firm pulled out. But the Turkish government said it would still press ahead.</font></p>
<br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>A Mexican dynasty</b></font></div>
<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">A Mexican political dynasty entered a third generation.<b> Lazaro Cardenas</b>, the son of the leader of the left-wing opposition and grandson of a reforming president, was elected as governor of the state of Michoacan, in a defeat for the formerly ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34386_6627542_2_79987158_60345293_1_6b">See article:  Mexico's confused political parties</a>
</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">After a month of prevarication, <b>Argentina's</b> biggest opposition-run provinces signed an agreement accepting cuts in revenue transfers from the centre. The deal may help President Fernando de la Rua gain international support for a plan to renegotiate the public debt.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34385_6627542_2_79987158_60345293_1_6a">See article:  Argentina's economic crisis</a>
<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/dingbats/e5.gif" hspace="2" width="17" height="10" alt="E+"></font></p>
<br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>Howard's third term</b></font></div><br clear="all"><table align="right" cellpadding="0" border="0" cellspacing="0" width="164"><tr><td height="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="3"><spacer height="1" type="block"></spacer></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><spacer width="1" type="block"></spacer></td><td><table cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="1"><tr><td><img src="http://www.economist.com/images/20011117/4601WW3.jpg" width="160" height="154" alt="EPA"></td></tr><tr><td align="left"><font FACE="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" SIZE="-1"><b></b></font></td></tr></table></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><spacer width="1" type="block"></spacer></td></tr><tr><td height="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="3"><spacer height="1" type="block"></spacer></td></tr></table>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">John Howard's conservative Liberal-National government won a third term of office in <b>Australia</b>. His victory was attributed partly to his tough policy towards illegal refugees.</font></p>

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<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34384_6627542_2_79987158_60345293_1_69">See article:  A third term for John Howard in Australia</a>
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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Talks between <b>North and South Korea </b>designed to lead to a resumption of cross-border family reunions broke up without agreement.</font></p>

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<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34383_6627542_2_79987158_60345293_1_68">See article:  The wishes of President Kim Dae Jung</a>
<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/dingbats/e5.gif" hspace="2" width="17" height="10" alt="E+"></font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Theys Eluay, the leader of a pro-independence movement in the Indonesian province of <b>Irian Jaya</b>, was found dead, believed murdered for political reasons. About 10,000 supporters held a peaceful demonstration at his funeral.</font></p>

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<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34394_6627542_2_79987158_60345293_1_6a">See article:  A strange murder in Irian Jaya</a>
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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">In <b>Myanmar's</b> first major government shuffle for four years, a senior member of the military junta was sacked, together with six ministers.</font></p>

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<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34393_6627542_2_79987158_60345293_1_69">See article:  Changes in Myanmar's junta</a>
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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">The trial began of over 30 members of a banned liberal group, the Freedom Movement, by <b>Iran's </b>Revolutionary Court. Among other charges, they are accused of trying to divert Iran's Islamic revolution in concert with &#8220;foreign and domestic enemies&#8221;. </font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">An Egyptian court jailed 23 men, one for five years and the rest for up to three, for taking part in a <b>gay-sex party </b>on a floating Nile nightclub called the Queen Boat.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>Muhammad Dahlan</b>, Yasser Arafat's chief of security in Gaza, offered his resignation (which Mr Arafat refused to accept) in protest at the arbitrary arrest of suspects, and the Palestinian Authority's lack of a coherent policy.</font></p>

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<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34392_6627542_2_79987158_60345293_1_68">See article:  Palestinian dissent</a>
<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/dingbats/e5.gif" hspace="2" width="17" height="10" alt="E+"></font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Robert Mugabe, <b>Zimbabwe's</b> president, ordered hundreds of commercial farmers whose land is designated for resettlement to stop farming immediately and leave their property within three months. The World Food Programme prepared to deliver aid to hungry Zimbabweans.</font></p>

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<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34396_6627542_2_79987158_60345293_1_6c">See article: Zimbabwe's farms</a>
<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/dingbats/e5.gif" hspace="2" width="17" height="10" alt="E+"></font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Jack Danforth, George Bush's special envoy, visited <b>Sudan</b> in a bid to broker a peace in the 18-year war between the government and rebels.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Several hundred young people and children were released in <b>Rwanda</b> after years of detention for alleged involvement in the 1994 genocide. Many thousands of people remain in prison awaiting trial.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">In <b>Kenya</b>, three policemen suspected of kidnapping and robbery were arrested. But graft charges against a cabinet minister were quashed.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Somalia's breakaway region of <b>Puntland</b> elected a retired colonel, Jama Ali Jama, as its president.</font></p>
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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Flash floods in <b>Algeria</b> killed more than 600 people, mainly in the capital. Algerians were enraged that the government had not unsealed storm-drains that had been blocked during the civil war against Islamist guerrillas.</font></p>

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