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...think Mayor Newsom has been a great voice for justice in the West Coast,” said McCleary. “You don’t stop doing the right thing because there’s a radical backlash. I think if more politicians acted on the courage of their convictions and did what they believe, I think we would have more progress...
LOCAL COLOR Santa Maria, a central coast town of 85,000, is "doing four times normal business" owing to the trial, says a caf manager...
...Ever feel like a tour guide is phoning it in? That may not be a bad thing, judging from a slew of new cell-phone tour services popping up across the U.S. At Talking Street (talkingstreet.com), which focuses on the country's major East Coast cities, you download a map of a tour online then dial in at indicated locations to hear historical stories and the scoop on local haunts from celebs with a connection to the place. Native New Yorker Sigourney Weaver escorts you through Lower Manhattan, for example, while rocker Steven Tyler takes you around Boston. Each tour...
...testified that the North Koreans were so appreciative that in 1999 they took him on a private tour of their nuclear facilities during his visit to Pyongyang. U.S. and IAEA investigators believe that Khan also traveled to Saudi Arabia and Egypt and to such African countries as Sudan, Ivory Coast and Niger. The purpose of those trips remains unclear, but intelligence officials have hunches: Saudi Arabia and Egypt are believed to be in the market for nuclear technology, and many African countries are rich in raw uranium...
When several Italian coast-guard cutters set out from the industrial port city of Taranto on that country's southeastern coast on Oct. 4, 2003, they had specific orders: to detain and board a German-flagged cargo ship called the BBC China, then heading for Libya. The seizure had, in fact, been arranged jointly by the CIA and MI6, the overseas arm of British intelligence. When the agents boarded the BBC China, what they found was anything but routine: five large containers, each carefully packed with precision machine tools, tubes and other bombmaking equipment. The containers amounted to part...