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Federal investigators suspected Zacarias Moussaoui of plotting terrorism even before Sept. 11. He was arrested in August on immigration charges after he attracted attention in Minnesota by offering thousands of dollars in cash for lessons on how to maneuver a plane in the air--but not how to land. Since his arrest, many observers have said Moussaoui was to have been the 20th member of the Sept. 11 hijackers...
...kidnap Chiang Kai-shek, releasing him two weeks later when Chiang promised to work with the communists to battle Japan. The promise resulted in a decade of cooperation that positioned the communists to conquer the entire Chinese mainland in 1949. Zhang spent the next 55 years under house arrest, mostly in Taiwan, but his reputation as a patriot grew. As democracy arrived in Taiwan in the early 1990s, he was given increasing freedom and began to spend more time in the U.S. with his descendants...
...good measure, the terror attacks have strengthened Mahathir's own crackdown on militant Islamic groups at home. At the beginning of August, police arrested 10 members of the Malaysian Mujahideen Group, which they say is headed by the son of the PAS spiritual leader, alleging they were responsible for a range of crimes, including bank robberies, assassinations and bombings of churches and Hindu temples. At the time, some opposition leaders accused Mahathir of manufacturing the terrorism bogey to undermine his political enemies. The more recent arrests of six other alleged militants have raised not a murmur of protest. "People feel...
...Award nominations and won three. DIED. CHANG HSUEH-LIANG, 100, onetime Chinese warlord who kidnapped Nationalist leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on Dec. 12, 1936 in Xi'an, forcing him into an alliance with the communists against the invading Japanese; in Honolulu. Chang spent nearly four decades under house arrest in Taiwan (see eulogy). DIED. ANNE RIDLER, 89, fluent and gifted poet, editor and translator; in Oxford. In June, Ridler, a onetime secretary to T.S. Eliot, was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for her services to literature. DIED. MICHELINE OSTERMEYER...
...Israel to show more restraint. And on both ends, that's a tough call: Arafat will be hard-pressed to sustain any clampdown if he has nothing to show for it, even more so while Israeli forces remain inside PA territory. Ordinary Palestinians are unlikely to accept the arrest of Zeevi's assassins while Israeli forces continue to conduct assassinations of their own. And while Sharon's Labor Party partners may wring their hands and threaten to quit the government if the current military deployments in PA areas are maintained for too much longer, Israeli public opinion remains strongly supportive...