Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
22 - 28 July 1999
Issue No. 439
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JFK and sonPotential unfulfilled

John F Kennedy Jr.'s fate was sealed late Friday evening when the single-engine, six-seat Piper Saratoga II HP that he was piloting plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off Martha's Vineyard, killing him along with his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette. --read on--

A week in the world
Raskols everywhere
By Peter Snowdon

More than they bargained for?
The Zionist lobby didn't want Salam Al-Marayati on a US Commission on Terrorism. They may have gotten what they wanted but, as Al-Marayati tells Tarek Atia, their smear campaign is already starting to backfire

United we stand
Action rather than smart (and empty) talk is what the Organisation of African Unity needs. But can the old dog learn new tricks, wonders Gamal Nkrumah
A long hot summer
The IMF seems to be getting the more "flexible" workforce it wanted in South Korea, writes Faiza Rady, but only at great cost to human rights
 
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Indian demonstrators INDIA this week secured most of Indian-administered Kashmir's battle zone after Islamist separatist intruders backed by Pakistan withdrew to the Line of Control that divides Indian administered- from Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.

Thousands of Indian soldiers swept across the mountains of northern Kashmir on Sunday to verify the withdrawal of the Pakistani-backed infiltrators.

India's Defence Minister George Fernandes announced triumphantly that India has, "successfully evicted all of the intruders". However, he had to concede that it "had been a costly victory. Victory at the expense of the blood of our brave jawanas (soldiers)".

Nevertheless, intermittent machine gun fire was exchanged between the advancing Indian troops and the fleeing insurgents.

India accused Islamabad of orchestrating the insurrections deep into Indian-held Kashmir. The Pakistanis deny that report saying that Indian oppression forced the Kashmiris to seek national self-determination

(photo:AFP)

 

 

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