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...COMES IN PEACE Even before an interloper from the shores of Fistiana upset the delicate balance of power, it had been a bad week for Sino-U.S. relations, with Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian planning a visit?er, transit?through the States, and China charging an American citizen with espionage. Then the entrance of a new superpower suddenly made that old bipolar paradigm seem as irrelevant as a WBO title belt...
...show business spanned six decades; in Jupiter, Florida. (See Eulogy) DIED. R.K. NARAYAN, 94, prolific novelist and author of short stories that characterized subcontinental village life; in the southern Indian city of Madras. Narayan was an early pioneer among Indian literati writing in English. CHARGED. LI SHAOMIN, 45, U.S. citizen and business professor who had been detained in China for three months, with spying for Taiwan; in Beijing. Li is one of five Chinese American citizens or residents, mostly academics, who have been detained in recent months by Beijing on espionage charges. CHARGED. ROBERT HANSSEN, former FBI agent, with...
...trial of 37 people accused of crimes against the state began in the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court. The 37 are alleged to be part of an organization, called the Government of Free Vietnam, that operates out of Thailand and Cambodia. The group, run by American citizen Nguyen Huu Chanh, is accused of planning armed attacks and fomenting political instability in Vietnam. The defendants, some arrested as long as two years ago, face sentences ranging from 12 years to death. The verdict is expected this week. Police also arrested a Catholic priest, Father Nguyen Van Ly, on antigovernment...
...this is a play, it would be called ‘An American Tragedy in Watertown,’” Driscoll said. “There’s nothing theatrical about less firefighters, fewer teachers, and having a large senior citizen population subsidize Harvard...
...year there was the relentless pursuit of Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos scientist who spent nine months in jail after an immense FBI mole hunt, only to be released by a judge who said his imprisonment had "embarrassed our entire nation and each of us who is a citizen of it." To say nothing of Richard Jewell...