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...Haiti's interim government has dashed hopes of national reconciliation by focusing on retribution against Aristide officials and supporters. That has emboldened street killers: since Aristide's exit, say human-rights reports, dozens of corpses of Aristide backers have turned up in alleys or fields near the airport of the capital, Port-au-Prince, where an international delegation recently observed pigs eating human flesh and bones. While interim Justice Minister Bernard Gousse has launched an investigation into Aristide's alleged ties to drug trafficking, which Aristide denies, he has turned a blind eye to U.S. and Haitian reports that...
...leader concerned with the plight of common folk--far different from Jiang, who seemed most comfortable in his glitzy Shanghai hometown. Ordinary Chinese welcome Hu's pledge to raise stagnant peasant incomes, his firing of officials for covering up last year's SARS epidemic and his ban on ostentatious airport send-offs for traveling dignitaries. At the same time, he has hobnobbed with leaders of capitalist nations at G-8 meetings and pressured North Korea to surrender its nuclear-weapons program...
...politicians are generally considered thieves. Mukund Mody, a New York City doctor and friend, was with Vajpayee on the night in May 1998 when India's first nuclear weapon was detonated in the Rajasthan desert. "There was no talk," says Mody. "We had our soup, I left for the airport, and I didn't hear about the test until I got to New York. He keeps to himself. He needs no counsel...
...election night, everything converged on Nashville’s Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel. O’Mary tore himself away from the room of CNN watchers to pick up more field staff from the airport. Some came off their plane cheering because the pilot had told them Florida had been called for Gore. O’Mary had to tell them it had been taken back...
...Europe, Air Polonia is flying within Poland and to London's Stansted Airport. To the south, Wizz Air, a Hungarian carrier, starts service in Eastern Europe in May, with an average one-way fare of $60. Even farther south, Qantas, Australia's biggest airline, begins service linking more than a dozen cities on Jetstar, going head to head with Virgin Blue. In the U.S., veteran no-frills flyer Southwest Airlines will take on U.S. Airways in Philadelphia. Southwest will offer $198 round-trip fares to cities like Phoenix, Ariz., and Las Vegas; USAir vows to make it a nasty fight...