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...attack will inevitably scare off many tourists, thus depriving the impoverished state of a rare source of foreign currency. Yet, in the immediate aftermath, authorities acted as if catching the killers was at best a secondary concern. According to Western diplomatic officers, local police were busily cleaning up the ambush site instead of collecting evidence or interviewing witnesses. By midday, phone lines were cut in Vang Vieng, and the road around the town sealed. "They were trying to hush it up," claims a diplomatic official, to "pretend it didn't happen...
...Iraq that dominates the headlines, forms the foreign-policy substance of President George W. Bush's State of the Union address and has the U.S. scurrying to build a global coalition as it mobilizes for war. This may once have made sense in Washington, where in the aftermath of 9/11, a decision was taken to seek regime change in Iraq. That Saddam is a dangerous tyrant who should be removed from the world stage is indisputable?from both Asian and American points of view. But the Bush Administration's agenda?to resolve the Kim Jong Il problem after Saddam...
...registration program is just one of a wide variety of new federal requirements established in the aftermath of Sept. 11 to track non-immigrants who fit the government’s profile of possible terrorists...
...Bild tabloid. "The reason for the disaster of my party is the policy it has pursued since 1999." The left wing's position has been greatly weakened since the election, though, because the need to appease the CDU will force the SPD to adopt more conservative policies. The election aftermath has done nothing to improve Schröder's image with voters. A Forsa poll last week showed that 69% of those surveyed had little confidence Schröder could steer the country in the right direction. The only point he and his public seem to agree on these days...
...aftermath of this disaster, it was sad to see officials struggling to defend the existence of the space program. On television, one person pointed to the multitude of scientific and technical advances that have been byproducts of NASA research. And Columbia’s mission indeed focused exclusively on science—but measuring dust clouds and soot formation in space hardly captures America’s imagination, as worthy as those experiments...