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...Secretary General Kofi Annan added to pressure on the ruling generals by calling on them to release democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. His appeal came shortly after the U.S. Congress agreed to impose sanctions on Burmese exports, in response to Suu Kyi's May 30 detention and the crackdown on her National League for Democracy. Island Overthrow SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE African leaders led the condemnation of a bloodless military coup while President Fradique deMenezes visited neighboring Nigeria. Coup leader Major Fernando Pereira said he merely wanted to draw international attention to the island nation's continuing poverty, despite...
...That peace has long since disappeared. The spring of 2003 has seen a brutal crackdown on dissidents and independent journalists. Hijacked crop dusters and military planes are landing with increased frequency at the airport in Key West. In April, three young men who had hijacked an aging ferryboat in Havana Bay were executed by firing squad. This week, just days after Compay Segundo's death, two separate boat hijackings left 3 dead and a 10-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the head. On Wednesday, Celia Cruz, the Cuban-born "Queen of Salsa" whom Castro barred from ever...
...China: AIDS Crackdown...
...China: AIDS Crackdown...
...China: AIDS Crackdown...