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...Penalty The Justice Department said it would seek the death penalty for Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person to be charged in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks. Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent, is accused of conspiring with Osama bin Laden, the hijackers and others to commit attacks in the U.S. Investigators believe he intended to take part in the Sept. 11 hijackings, though he was in jail at the time. French officials said they would refuse to provide evidence against Moussaoui on four of the six charges that carry the death penalty. The trial is scheduled to begin...
...corporate claims from scores of countries, but the effect on Third World nations might be even more dramatic. Could a developing country stand up to a timber giant wanting to clear-cut the rain forest? A multinational retailer flouting labor laws? Says Mary Bottari, of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, a liberal activist group: "The mere threat of a vast damage award could make poorer nations concede before the fight...
...them into accepting new patients. The American Academy of Family Physicians estimates that at least one in six physicians turns Medicare patients away, a problem exacerbated by a 5.4 percent decrease in Medicare payments to doctors this year. It is tragic that the health and well- being of the citizens of the richest nation in the world are jeopardized because Medicare and Medicaid are woefully under-funded while an unresponsive government refuses to act. Rather than providing inadequate health insurance for some, the government should offer quality health insurance to every American citizen...
...information and the rivalries of local warlords, which in Afghanistan are two sides of the same coin. The Americans have always known that Paktia province, where the fighting is taking place, is bandit country. (Ironically, the new governor of the province, and Karzai's voice there, is an American citizen: Taj Muhammad Wardak spent the past decade in Los Angeles.) Shah-i-Kot was a well-known base for the mujahedin fighting Soviet forces in the 1980s; indeed, the Soviets never took the valley. The soft shale on the ridges is ideal for the construction of caves. One cave, visited...
...information and the rivalries of local warlords, which in Afghanistan are two sides of the same coin. The Americans have always known that Paktia province, where the fighting is taking place, is bandit country. (Ironically, the new governor of the province, and Karzai's voice there, is an American citizen: Taj Muhammad Wardak spent the past decade in Los Angeles.) Shah-i-Kot was a well-known base for the mujahedin fighting Soviet forces in the 1980s; indeed, the Soviets never took the valley. The soft shale on the ridges is ideal for the construction of caves. One cave, visited...