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deputy secretary of state John Negroponte contacted Benazir Bhutto upon his arrival in Pakistan yesterday, in an apparent attempt to salvage a deal that would see her share power with the country's military leader, General Pervez Musharraf. And, crucially, the United States may be willing to tolerate the firing of judges that followed the emergency, as long as the crackdown on civil society - the media and political activists - is lifted. Musharraf today with a message from Washington to...