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...European Union cautiously welcomed Havana's announcement that it was resuming diplomatic ties with eight E.U. member states, including Britain, France and Germany. Cuba froze relations with most E.U. nations in 2003 after the bloc decided to invite dissidents to embassy functions in Cuba, in protest at a crackdown on opponents of the regime. In December, the E.U. advised dropping that policy after a number of jailed dissidents were released. Slow Justice CHILE The Supreme Court upheld an indictment on charges of kidnap and murder against former dictator Augusto Pinochet, relating to his 1973-1990 period in office. MEANWHILE...
...Since President Hu Jintao assumed full control of the government in September, there have been several signs of a widening crackdown on freedom of expression: the shutdown of A Complete Mess, a politically pluralistic university chat site; the firing of several prominent journalists; and the canceling of classes taught by a Peking University professor who openly criticized China's propaganda system in essays, interviews and lectures. Last month when a Guangdong newsweekly published a list of 50 "public intellectuals," the state-run People's Daily responded with a sharply worded editorial attacking the concept: "What is meant by 'public intellectual...
...line. His father tried to save him, and then the two other boys rushed to help. All four were electrocuted. "I've lost all the males in my family," sobbed daughter Lea, 19, who now lives in a temporary shelter in the town of Rodriguez. Arroyo called for a crackdown on the highly lucrative lumber trade that has stripped the mountains. Millions of hectares of forest have disappeared in recent decades-and the Philippines is reminded every year how hazardous it is to fool around with Mother Nature...
...Chinese pro-democracy campaigner and co-founder of the underground magazine Tansuo (Explorations); after 12 years in prison for counterrevolutionary activity; in Beijing. Liu, who participated in the 1978 Democracy Wall movement, was arrested after he helped establish the China Freedom and Democracy Party following the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Human-rights activists called Liu's release two years before the end of his sentence a conciliatory gesture to the international community by the Chinese government...
...Herald’s Harvard-hating headline—which ran with the subhead, “Cops vow crackdown on rowdy drunks,” and appeared above a picture of pugnacious Pacer, Ron Artest—helped boost sales of the 50-cent rag, which sold out before noon at 7-11 in the Square, according to an employee who wouldn’t give his name but would sell Gadfly a Slurpee...