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Allegiances and allies. Things lose their distinctiveness by subsuming themselves into larger entities. Loose associations become more formal. Groups of people organise themselves under one banner. Large organisations admit new members.The Fulfilment:
Russia: Yeltsin names Igor Rodionov as his new defence minister. A victory for Yeltsin over the Communists and a favour to Alexander Lebed, Yeltsin's new right-hand man and security chief. Admitting a new ally.
Portugal: Old colonies of Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Cabo Verde sign treaty establishing a commonwealth of Portuguese nations -- along the lines of La Francophonie. Establishing allegiances.
Serbia: US envoy Holbrooke goes to Milosevic to see if he can help dislodge Karadzic from his crevice of power in Bosnia. Politics makes strange bedfellows, yes? Seeking an ally.
UK - Ulster: PM John Major meets briefly with Catholic leaders to try to revive the disintegrating peace talks. Seeking allies.
USA: CIA may resume using journalists, church workers and Peace Corps volunteers as agents, after twenty years of prohibiting the practice because it endangered the lives of all involved non-combatants in overseas posts. Seeking allies.
USA: Bill Clinton's price from the world for holding back on the draconian anti-Cuba Helms-Burton Law is more pressure on Castro to implement humanitarian reforms. Seeking allies.
USA: NY: TWA Boeing 747 en route to Paris explodes and plunges into the sea off Long Island. Already many suspect terrorism.
N. Korea: Govt wants American food aid up front as a precondition to attending peace talks with the South. USA refuses. Seeking an ally.
Japan: Sakai: Food poisoning epidemic in primary schools has sickened 5000 children -- the sixth day.
China: Shenzhen: Hotel fire kills 29 people and injures 13 more. There were 200 guests in it at the time. Most unharmed.
UK: British govt now turning to republican Ireland for help in restarting the peace talks. Seeking allies.
Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi smuggles out video calling for full economic sanctions against the military government there. Seeking allies.
Egypt: Israeli PM Netanyahu visits Mubarak to talk about the peace process. Seeking allies.
Bosnia: Ten hours of bickering and heated words between the US envoy and Milosevic ends with Karadzic's resignation absolute from all his public offices.
Russia: The Duma votes 272 to 4 that Yeltsin should again seek peace in Chechnya.
Japan: US military agrees to hand over an American sailor accused of robbing a Japanese woman.
Cyprus: Diplomatic breakthrough announced in getting the Turks and Cypriots to talk about peace and demilitarisation on their little island.
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