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...more than 1,000 have been held in connection with Sept. 11, many on flimsy charges like visa expiration. Well, Zacarias Moussaoui, arrested in August, signed up for flight school in Minnesota to learn how to fly but not land or take off. He will not talk. Shall...
...whom have already died of AIDS. If it continues to kill at its present rate, it will surpass the death toll of the Black Plague within two years. For many years, this devastation was greeted by an eerie silence. Just in the last year, however, there is hope: by August, the cost of AIDS treatment in developing countries had dropped to $250 per year; countries across Africa and around the world have begun to shake off their apathy and denial and plan serious national AIDS programs; and the UN’s Special Session on AIDS in June...
DUST PROBE: The FBI gave the detainee Zacarias Moussaoui a test for the anthrax vaccine. Result: negative. A would-be pilot, he was arrested last August with literature on crop dusters in his possession. He is being held as a material witness in the Sept. 11 case. TOWERING TARGETS: In 1999, Spanish police intercepted a van with more than a ton of explosives. Last week a captured Basque separatist said the target had been Madrid's 48-story Picasso Towers, designed by the World Trade Center architect...
...were in New York City last week to address the U.N. General Assembly, Bush's National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, explained the stonewalling. "You cannot help us with al-Qaeda," she said, "and hug [terrorist groups] Hizballah or Hamas." But the U.S. approach has others apopleptic. Even back in August, before Sept. 11 raised the stakes, de facto Saudi leader Crown Prince Abdullah sent a blunt message to Bush: "You've left us no choice but to take steps irrespective of what effects they have on U.S. interests." Last week Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal was similarly scathing...
When he arrived in Phnom Penh in August 1973, Roland Neveu was 23 years old and barely experienced enough to call himself a photographer. He stayed seven weeks until he ran out of money, but that was long enough to get hooked. Cambodia?its war, its people, its tragedy?became an obsession. After a year of mandatory military service back home in France, he returned to Cambodia in 1975, just as the Khmer Rouge swept to power and plunged the country into the abyss. For the next 25 years Neveu would return to photograph whenever he could...