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<font SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" color="999999">October 18th 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>The war continues</b></font></div><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> </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"><img src="http://www.economist.com/images/20011020/4201WW1.jpg" width="180" height="152" alt="EPA" align="right"> America continued its military action against <b>Afghanistan </b>using bombers and <font size="-1">AC</font>-130 gunships which can be used against ground troops gathered in small numbers. Observers said that this suggested that use of America's own ground forces was imminent.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_31020_6511231_2_80010922_60368779_1_3a">See article: Nation-bruising, nation-building</a>
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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"></font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">The Taliban seized two <font size="-1">UN</font> warehouses with more than half the World Food Programme's <b>aid</b> for Afghanistan. One was restored to <font size="-1">UN</font> control the next day.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Panic swept America after a letter containing <b>anthrax </b>was sent to Tom Daschle, the Democratic leader of the Senate (the third confirmed incident of anthrax by post); more than 30 people in Mr Daschle's office tested positive for exposure to the bacterium. The House of Representatives will close for nearly a week for a security sweep. The <font size="-1">FBI</font> said it had had some 3,000 false anthrax alarms. Elsewhere, Kenya reported receipt of at least one letter contaminated with anthrax.</font></p>

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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>Bayer </b>undertook to triple production of Cipro, the only antibiotic approved for the treatment of anthrax. Tommy Thompson, America's health and human services secretary, declared that he would seek funds to lay in enough supplies to treat 12m people for 60 days.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">The outcome of the Democratic primary in <b>New York city </b>was put in doubt after a recount was ordered. The race had appeared to be won by Mark Green, the city's public advocate. His rival for the nomination, Fernando Ferrer, has retracted his concession.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>Cuba </b>reacted angrily to Russia's announcement that it will close its remaining spy-base on the Caribbean island, saying no agreement had been reached. The Cubans accused President Vladimir Putin of wanting to give &#8220;a special present&#8221; to George Bush, his new-found ally against terrorism.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Mike Harris, the powerful premier of Ontario, <b>Canada's</b> biggest province, resigned.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Fed up with a long recession and threats of budget-balancing austerity, <b>Argentina's </b>voters gave their Alliance government a walloping in congressional elections.</font></p>

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

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>Australia </b>said it would send 1,550 troops, along with military hardware, to join the American operation in Afghanistan.</font></p>
<br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>Assassination in Israel</b></font></div>
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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>Rehavam Zeevi</b>, Israel's far-right minister of tourism, was assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in revenge for the earlier killing of the group's leader. Ariel Sharon said he held Yasser Arafat responsible, though the Palestinian Authority was quick to condemn the killing and arrested several <font size="-1">PFLP</font> men. Six of Mr Zeevi's right-wing colleagues, who with him had been at the point of resigning from the governing coalition, said they would give Mr Sharon a chance to show toughness.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">
<a href="http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_31016_6511231_2_80010922_60368779_1_3f">See article: Which way will Ariel Sharon go now?</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">Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak ordered that 170 suspected <b>Islamic militants</b>, who had long been held without trial, should go before a military court at once.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Police in <b>Malawi</b> arrested a leading opposition politician on charges of treason relating to a failed coup. Brown Mpinganjira was a founding member of President Bakili Muluzi's ruling party, but formed his own party, the National Democratic Alliance, partly to oppose the president's efforts to win a third term in office.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">A report on mortality rates revealing that <font size="-1">AIDS</font> is the biggest killer in <b>South Africa</b> was finally released. The government had delayed publication of the Medical Research Council's report, while the official statistics agency sought to pick holes in its findings.</font></p>
<br clear="all"><div><font face="verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif"><b>Re-starting Europe's heart</b></font></div>
<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Governments in both <b>France </b>and <b>Germany </b>started to revise plans to pep up their slowing economies. Leaks from Germany's finance ministry revealed that estimated <font size="-1">GDP </font>growth for next year is now 1.5%, down from a previous official guess of 2.25%. Laurent Fabius<b></b>,<b></b>France's finance minister, proposed a budget for next year that would double tax-credits for the low paid and give help to investors.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Tensions between <b>France's</b> Socialist-led government and its conservative president rose with the publication of a ?tell all? book by Olivier Schrameck, the prime minister's closest aide.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">In <b>Italy</b>, conflicting attitudes to America's bombing of Afghanistan threw the opposition on the left into disarray. The main ex-Communist party and the centre-left alliance's current leader, Francesco Rutelli, were in favour, but two still-Communist parties, the Greens and some centre-left Christian Democrats were against.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">Tension rose in <b>Georgia </b>and its Russian-backed breakaway statelet, <b>Abkhazia</b>, where skirmishes continued and Chechens helped the Georgians. Meanwhile, over Chechnya itself, Russians and Chechens were said to be putting out peace feelers through intermediaries.</font></p>

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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>Greece's </b>centre-left prime minister, Costas Simitis, was re-elected as leader of the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement, known as Pasok. </font></p>
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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">The <b>Indian </b>government approved legislation to combat terrorism, making it compulsory to pass information about terrorist activities to the authorities.</font></p>

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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>India </b>shelled Pakistani positions across the line of control in Kashmir, the most serious outbreak of hostilities for almost a year. A visit by America's secretary of state, Colin Powell, did nothing to resolve tensions.</font></p>

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<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1"><b>Singapore's</b> government called a general election for November 3rd. It could have waited until August next year.</font></p>

<p><font FACE="verdana,geneva,arial,sans serif" size="-1">The prime minister of <b>Japan</b>, Junichiro Koizumi, offered a &#8220;heartfelt apology&#8221; to South Korea for his country's actions during the occupation of the peninsula and the second world war.</font></p>

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