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...search of the maharishi to learn more about transcendental meditation. Most of them really made the trip to pay tribute to the Beatles. On any given day you found them trying to reconnect to the current that had passed through their lives in the days before the band broke up. They were the ones you saw crouching in the grass, reaching down to touch the concrete landing pad where the Beatles' helicopter had once lifted the magic boys into...
None of those threats were proved to have come from Michael Abram, but it was Abram, a 33-year-old Beatle obsessive from a Liverpool suburb, who, in the dead of night on Dec. 30, 1999, got past the alarms and razor wire at Friar Park and broke into the Harrisons' mansion. George suffered an inch-deep stab wound to his chest before Olivia knocked Abram down with a bedside lamp. Harrison recovered, and Abram was sent to a mental institution...
BRITAIN One Fell Swoop In an unprecedented global swoop, police on four continents broke up an online child-pornography ring, arresting more than 130 people suspected of trading images of young children. Twenty countries took part in the 10-month-long British-led investigation, codenamed Operation Landmark...
NEPAL Red Alert King Gyanendra declared a state of emergency and ordered troops into battle after Maoist guerrillas broke a four-month truce with a series of deadly attacks. The country had previously relied on its under-equipped police force to contain the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), which has been fighting to topple the monarchy since 1996. At least 220 people died in the week?s fighting, which included the rebels? first-ever strike on an army post...
...guerrillas were hacked to death by citizens infuriated by a government decision to give rebels safe passage back to their camp in exchange for the freedom of 110 civilian hostages. Manila charged renegade Governor and MNLF leader Nur Misuari with rebellion and sedition in connection with the violence, which broke a 1996 peace pact between the government and the guerrilla group...