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ARRESTED. Charles Sobhraj, 59, seductive con man and accused serial killer, who has spent more than 20 years in Asian jails but has never been convicted of murder; in Kathmandu. The feral Sobhraj, a half-Indian, half-Vietnamese French citizen, traveled between Europe and Asia in the '60s and '70s picking up Western tourists and drugging and robbing them. By the time Indian police caught up with him in 1976-after he drugged a hotel buffet served to French tourists-he was a suspect in the murder of at least 20 travelers in Afghanistan, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Nepal, Thailand...
...Afghanistan and one of the leaders of this Islamist group, "the men are magnificent." He professes equal admiration for two others, both acquaintances: Omar Khan Sharif, one of the two British suicide bombers who blew up a crowded Tel Aviv bar last April, and Omar Saeed Sheik, the British citizen accused of murdering journalist Daniel Pearl...
...unfortunately rather than the exception everywhere in the world. Her facial features gave her fellow Chinese in China the impression that she was no different from them, and they were bewildered by her insistence on being American because she was born in that country. I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, and at a conference 15 years ago, I was asked by another participant where I was from. When I answered "Buffalo, New York," he responded with disdain on his face, mumbling something not too polite. The encounter definitely strengthened the "Chineseness" inside me. It is not easy...
...Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, recently sponsored a constitutional amendment to open the presidency to those who have been U.S. citizens for at least 20 years and residents for at least 14 years. The House’s version of the amendment, sponsored by Rep. Vic Snyder, D-Ark., calls for a candidate to have been a naturalized citizen for at least 35 years. Both proposals deserve praise for removing an antiquated and discriminatory requirement that was designed to protect a vulnerable new country—not the stable global power America is today...
...will remain as unpredictable as its past is mysterious. - By Stephan Faris Old Foes Make Up SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO During the first visit to Belgrade by a Croatian President since Serbs and Croats went to war in 1991, both heads of state offered regrets for the actions of their citizens during the conflict. "I want to apologize for all the wrongdoings that any citizen of Serbia and Montenegro has committed against any citizen of Croatia," Serbian President Zvetozar Marovic said at a joint news conference. His counterpart from Zagreb, Stijpe Mesic, said he accepted "the symbolic apology" and offered...