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...Western values, have broken into compounds in Riyadh and Jidda to threaten and arrest Westerners drinking home-brewed liquor in defiance of the ban on alcohol. A women's tennis tournament in Riyadh was halted when the mutawain learned of it. The government advised an oil-company executive to cancel a party because members of both sexes were invited. Wives of Western businessmen and diplomats are fearful of leaving their villas in the evening unless accompanied by their husbands. To do otherwise in the atmosphere of intimidation created by the mutawain is to risk imprisonment...
...Khmer Rouge sent to the killing fields all who spoke French or wore glasses or had soft hands. The Khmer Rouge aimed to cancel all previous history and begin at Year Zero. Utopia, this century has learned the hard way, usually bears a resemblance to hell. An evil chemistry turns the dream of salvation into damnation...
...numbers in the rear ranks were dwindling. A friend remembers that Chun was upset when students at the junior college affiliated with his university refused to cancel their annual spring festival celebrations after the suicides. The day he died, Chun surprised a confidant by asking, "Don't you think we would have more fighting activists if someone else killed himself by immolation?" Says Seoul National University sociology professor Han Wan Sang: "Self-immolation is an extreme form of the ignition effect -- an attempt to ignite society. If after the first two suicides the masses had been ignited, Chun...
...most disappointing displays was made collectively by the Ivy coaches who waited until almost 1 p.m. on Sunday to cancel the final 18 holes after deliberating for almost four hours at the course site...
...time the nation's legislators approved a $9 billion contribution to the gulf effort, the war was over and troops were on their way home. Last week allied commanders took silent note of the tardy assistance when Liberal Democratic Party secretary Ichiro Ozawa was abruptly forced to cancel a trip to the Middle East. Ozawa, touted as a future Japanese Prime Minister, found it difficult to secure appointments with top officials in Saudi Arabia. He also found that military commanders were suddenly too busy to find him a place on a flight into Kuwait. The silent treatment let Tokyo know...