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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 22nd 2001<br>From The Economist print edition
</font>
<br><br><br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>Endgame in Afghanistan?</b></font></div>
      <p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><table align="right" cellpadding="0" border="0" cellspacing="0" width="184"><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/20011124/4701WW1.jpg" width="180" height="175" 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>American planes kept up their attacks on the remaining <b>Taliban stronghold</b> of Kandahar, while Kunduz
seemed on the brink of surrender. The Northern Alliance, King Mohammed Zahir Shah and Pakistan-based Pushtuns agreed to send representatives to a <font size="-1">UN</font>-brokered meeting near Bonn to discuss the structure of a transitional post-Taliban government.</font></p>

      <p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34870_6659418_2_79987158_60345293_1_70">See article: Distantly, the shape of peace</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"></font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Twenty-one countries met in Washington to start to plan the <b>economic reconstruction </b>of Afghanistan. The <font size="-1">UN</font> said that rebuilding the country would cost more than $25 billion over 10 years.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">President George Bush, addressing troops in Kentucky, gave warnings that the &#8220;most difficult steps&#8221; lay ahead: the breaking of al-Qaeda and the capture of Osama bin Laden. The bounty for his capture was raised to $25m.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34869_6659418_2_79987158_60345293_1_78">See article: Cherchez l'homme</a>
<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/dingbats/e5.gif" hspace="2" width="17" height="10" alt="E+"></font></p>

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<br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>The safest way to travel</b></font></div>
<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">President George Bush signed a long-awaited <b>aviation-security</b> bill. As many as 28,000 of the people who screen air passengers and their baggage will become federal employees. The bill also calls for stronger cockpit doors on aircraft and more armed federal marshals on flights.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">An elderly woman in Connecticut died from the inhalation form of <b>anthrax</b>. A letter to Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont tested positive for the disease: so did the offices of two more senators.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34868_6659418_2_79987158_60345293_1_77">See article: Curiouser and curiouser</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">The United States denounced Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya, Syria and Sudan for having, or seeking to acquire, <b>biological weapons</b>. The move accompanied proposals by the Bush administration to strengthen the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34867_6659418_2_79987158_60345293_1_76">See article: Where should Mr Bush put his chips now?</a>
<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/dingbats/e5.gif" hspace="2" width="17" height="10" alt="E+"></font></p>

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<br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>Rasmussen beats Rasmussen</b></font></div>
<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>Denmark's</b> centre-right Liberals, led by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, won a general election, beating the centre-left Social Democrats, led by Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, the European Union's longest-serving prime minister.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34873_6659418_2_79987158_60345293_1_73">See article: Anders Fogh Rasmussen</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">The government of <b>Germany's </b>chancellor, Gerhard Schr&ouml;der<b>, </b>narrowly won a parliamentary vote of confidence tied to his promise to send troops abroad to help in the war against terrorism, but many of his coalition's Greens, who have a party congress this weekend, continue to wobble.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b></b></font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34872_6659418_2_79987158_60345293_1_72">See article: Still edgy</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"><b></b>Mr Schr&ouml;der's chief foreign-policy adviser, <b>Michael Steiner</b>, resigned after losing his temper with a German sergeant who is said to have failed to get him some caviare during a refuelling stopover.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">An ex-Communist, Georgi Purvanov, was elected president of <b>Bulgaria</b>, against the wishes of the country's prime minister, Simeon Saxe-Coburg, its ex-king.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34871_6659418_2_79987158_60345293_1_71">See article: Up to a point, King Simeon</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">In <b>Kosovo </b>the more moderate ethnic-Albanian nationalists led by Ibrahim Rugova, who is expected to become the province's president, won a general election.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">After weeks of hesitation, <b>Macedonia's </b>parliament endorsed constitutional amendments to give the country's ethnic-Albanian minority more rights.</font></p>
<br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>Middle East peace effort</b></font></div>
<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, heralded a fresh American effort to end <b>Israeli-Palestinian violence</b>. Anthony Zinni, a former commander of American forces in the Middle East, was instructed to help negotiate a ceasefire, and to remain in the region until his mission was accomplished.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34875_6659418_2_79987158_60345293_1_75">See article: When an irresistable Zinni meets an immovable Sharon</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">Ninety-four suspected <b>Islamic militants</b> went on trial before an Egyptian military court. All were charged with belonging to a secret organisation working against the state; the relatives of some say they were tortured to obtain confessions. </font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Five <b>Gazan children </b>were killed by an unexploded Israeli tank shell on their way to school.</font></p>
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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's opposition leader, was cleared of treason charges, and so will run against <b>Robert Mugabe </b>in next year's presidential election. Mr Mugabe, in his campaign against white farmers, threatened to break up farms larger than 2,000 hectares (4,940 acres). </font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Daniel arap Moi, Kenya's president, strengthened his standing in the country by appointing Uhuru Kenyatta, son of Kenya's first president and independence hero, Joseph Kenyatta, to be a local government minister.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>Syria</b> released a handful of political prisoners, some detained since the mid-1980s, as part of a presidential amnesty. But human-rights groups estimate that some 1,300 political dissidents are still detained. </font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">An official report into a $5 billion arms deal in <b>South Africa</b> found no evidence of widespread corruption, but identified conflicts of interest and murky goings-on.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34874_6659418_2_79987158_60345293_1_74">See article: Gunning for profit</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"><b>Miss Nigeria </b>became the first black African to win the Miss World beauty contest. </font></p>
<br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>Argentina muddles on</b></font></div>
<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">More trouble for <b>Argentina's</b> government, as it struggles to persuade investors to accept a restructuring of its debt. Domingo Cavallo, the economy minister, admitted that falling tax revenues meant fiscal targets agreed with the <font size="-1">IMF</font> would be missed. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court quashed charges of arms smuggling against Carlos Menem, a former president.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">A group representing <b>Venezuela's</b> private sector called a one-day &#8220;strike&#8221; in protest at 49 decree-laws issued by President Hugo Chavez, which include measures to increase royalties on oil production and limit land ownership.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34877_6659418_2_79987158_60345293_1_77">See article: To the barricades</a>
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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">In a historic chink in a trade embargo imposed in 1960, three American firms signed contracts to sell foodstuffs worth about $20m to <b>Cuba</b>.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_34876_6659418_2_79987158_60345293_1_76">See article: After the storm</a>
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<br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>Spiritual support</b></font></div>
<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">A group of 35 westerners unfurled a banner in Beijing in support of the <b>Falun Gong</b>, a spiritual movement banned in China. The demonstrators, who came from the United States and Europe, had entered China on tourist visas. All were deported.</font></p>
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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">China closed 17,500 <b>Internet caf&eacute;s</b>, claiming that too many people were becoming hooked on computer games and pornographic sites. Another 28,000 Internet caf&eacute;s are to be closely monitored.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">The <b>king of Malaysia</b>, Sultan Salahuddin, died aged 75, leaving 14 children from four marriages. His successor will be chosen from one of nine traditional rulers who take it in turns to be king.</font></p>

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