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Pervaiz Musharraf, by all accounts a political neophyte, is expected to avoid international tension while he figures out, as supreme commander, how to dig his country out of corruption and feudal backwardness.
A leader in Britain's Observer took an unusual position, claiming that the carelessly erected buildings of the 1980s, which have been blamed for the quake's massive death toll, represent Turkey's "attempt to escape from stagnation and backwardness by letting private enterprise rip."
In Russia, the daily Segodnya said Friday that Russia was generally safe from Y2K because most of its computers had been purchased in the mid-1990s when the problem was already understood by software producers ("Thus, the technical backwardness of Russia played to its advantage for the first time").