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...accidental nuclear attack on the Soviet Union; in Carpinteria, California. The Texas native also authored political science books and did pioneering research on health care as well as on aging. DIED. RAYMOND MARCELLIN, 90, conservative French politician who, as Interior Minister under President Charles de Gaulle, led the tough crackdown on the 1968 student protests; in Paris. DIED. ROSE GACIOCH, 89, star pitcher and outfielder in the heyday of women's professional baseball; in Detroit. As a mainstay for the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1945 to its demise...
...question that Harvard has cracked down harder on liquor violations,” Herms said. “But they’ve made no announcement about this harsher crackdown. They are evidently not reducing the rate of drinking. At this current rate, one out of every 12 students has been or will be Ad Boarded for liquor law violations during their tenure at Harvard...
...former chauffeur, who had borrowed the religious leader's car, according to police. The Arab driver was allegedly involved in the Independence Day rocket plot. "This is significant," says one Washington official. "Pakistan's engagement in the war on terror is all the more visible with these detentions." The crackdown, which began in earnest in August, has enraged the deeply conservative, Islamic sector of Pakistani society...
...Will control of Iraq devolve to the moderate Shi'ites and Sunnis or to the fundamentalist insurgents of both sects who have made parts of the country terrorist sanctuaries? Will pro-democracy reformers in Iran wrest power from the country's aging theocrats or be squelched by a new crackdown? Can Pakistan's secular government and Saudi Arabia's ruling family survive the increasingly violent campaign waged by bin Laden--linked extremists to destroy them both? Here's a glimpse at the global war for the future of Islam--and what it may mean for the rest of the world...
STRIPPED. AUGUSTO PINOCHET, 88, Chilean President from 1973 to 1990; of immunity from prosecution, in a 9-8 vote by Chile's Supreme Court; in Santiago. The decision opens the way for a possible trial on charges of human-rights abuses for Pinochet's crackdown on dissidents in the 1970s and '80s in which at least 19 Chileans are believed to have died...