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...blamed opposition parties for time wasting, which she said was delaying the passage of important legislation. Bill English, leader of the National Party, disputed the charge, and accused Clark of manipulating the people of New Zealand. The U.S. Dirty Bomber The White House backed off from its initial alarm over an alleged plot to explode a "dirty bomb," a conventional explosive laced with a radioactive element. The U.S. government said that the threat of such an attack on an American city was minimal. The clarification followed U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's announcement of the arrest...
...enforcement agencies and - particularly since Sept. 11 - the U.S. government, European legislatures have approved greater snooping powers. As the trend continues, however, there is growing concern among civil libertarians, politicians and others about the degree to which such laws are necessary, practical or consistent with fundamental human-rights guarantees. Alarm bells began to sound in late May when the European Parliament amended the E.U.'s telecommunications framework legislation. The revision allows the E.U.'s 15 member states to introduce national legislation requiring telephone companies and Internet service providers to log and retain data on customers' calls, e-mails, faxes...
...meantime, Vajpayee has undergone a sudden conversion from peacemaker to warmonger?primarily in response to political pressures. This year's standoff on the border shows the dovish Prime Minister has accepted the argument that war?or the threat of it?works. In comments that set off alarm bells around the world, Vajpayee last month spoke twice of an impending "decisive battle" against India's "enemy." Although he has repeatedly said that he does not want war, the Prime Minister has sound strategic reasons for ratcheting up the rhetoric. Since Sept. 11, he has found the international community more sympathetic...
...chatted with a shepherd, then forced into a loveless marriage with a rich man who will pay her family's rent. The last two women set themselves on fire in protest and despair. Yet the film can also burst into comic atonalities: the rich man who has a security alarm on his refrigerator (it's where he keeps his money), the shepherd on a cell-phone call to a pal in St. Petersburg. Life is sad; life is odd; life goes...
...Sharon's plan appears to be to wear down the resistance of Palestinian militants until they're prepared to accept Israel's terms. But many Israelis have expressed surprise and alarm at how soon after "Defensive Shield" Palestinian attacks have resumed. Washington, at least formally, is opposed to Israel seeking a military solution, and the Bush administration's game plan, in concert with moderates, is to restore conditions for dialogue by getting the PA's security structures to clamp down hard on prospective terrorists. But right now ordinary Palestinians are not taking the PA's security structures any more seriously...