Word: citizens
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...inspiration for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who last week announced he would be stepping down. If Mori has one-tenth Clinton's compassion, he'll soon be telling Gujaratis, "I feel your pain" through an interpreter and wondering when's lunch. Look at it this way, Citizen Mori: You may have lost power, riches and reputation. But you get a turban...
...self-exiled Bhutto to return home. INDICTED. SONG HAK SAM, 55, for visiting North Korea and allegedly distributing a book sympathetic to North Korea in violation of a South Korean security law; in Seoul. Song's lawyers and human rights groups say he is the first American citizen indicted under the law. If convicted, he could face expulsion, a long prison term or even the death penalty. RESIGNATION RESCINDED. By MARY ROBINSON, 56, human rights chief of the United Nations, bowing to pressure from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan; in Nairobi, Kenya. Robinson, an outspoken former President of Ireland, said...
...animals to the official "endangered" list (and therefore make them subject to federal protection). The move, criticized by one environmental leader as "an invitation to extinction," would maintain the right to sue on paper - but would discourage petitions by reducing the Interior Department's budget for dealing with citizen actions, leaving suits filed by tenacious groups or individuals languishing on dusty shelves...
...Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge, struck down newly enacted emissions limits for power stations and abandoned updated standards for the amount of arsenic in water. And so, despite assurances from an Interior Department spokesman that Thursday's announcement simply represents a way out from the weight of accumulating citizen lawsuits and "to help us move toward a rational system," Bush's latest decision is being perceived as yet another kick in the shins...
...visiting inspectors of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), 10,000 members of the Falun Gong religious movement wasted in prisons for the crime of practicing their beliefs. One hundred fifty of the movement’s leaders have already died in police custody. Meanwhile, China continues to try its citizens in lightning-fast court proceedings, executing them for minor offenses like tax evasion and afterwards harvesting their organs without donor consent. Forced labor is common. Tibetans remain oppressed. And hitting closer to home, the Chinese Ministry of State Security has recently detained a string of Western scholars, one of whom...