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SOUTH KOREA No Primary Role The National Assembly voted to reject the appointment of Chang Sang as the country's first female Prime Minister. President Kim Dae Jung said the vote was a blow to his country's women and that South Korea could not expect to become successful if its women continued to play a secondary role. The vote against Chang followed allegations that she had conducted ethically dubious speculation in land, claimed falsely to have studied at Princeton University and encouraged her son to take U.S. citizenship to avoid military service: all denied by Chang...
...persists throughout the Middle East. Having gone to ground, the Internet remains an important channel of direct communication between al-Qaeda and sympathizers outside of its immediate structures. If U.S. cyber attacks deprive the network of that propaganda channel, al-Qaeda's propaganda efforts will have suffered a significant blow...
...last year. See Also: A Journey Through Angola U.S. Funding Cut The U.S. government said it would not make an expected $34 million contribution to the U.N. Population Fund, contending that the fund aids Chinese government agencies that force women to get abortions. The move was seen as a blow for U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who praised the Fund at his Senate confirmation hearings-and for his State Department, which said a May fact-finding mission found no evidence the fund "knowingly supported or participated in the management of a program of coercive abortion and forced sterilizations." PERU...
...conscience. Case in point: Tamaki Mitsui, a 58-year-old former prosecutor in the Osaka High Public Prosecutor's Office. Last April, Mitsui planned to appear on television to expose what he claimed was the systematic embezzlement of public funds by some of his colleagues. Before he could blow the whistle, members of Mitsui's own department arrested him. Mitsui's family and other supporters say the charges against him?tax evasion and collusion with a mobster?were trumped up to keep him from going public. Indeed, Mitsui can't talk to anyone but his lawyer while he languishes behind...
...groups break down along class lines. Rosy, a pretty 26-year-old extra, looks jealously at the models. One of them is smoking, another is chatting on her mobile phone. "They are here just to have fun," Rosy says bitterly. "They want money to blow in discos. I need to pay bills...