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...apocalyptic scenario, perhaps, but the plan stood a 50% chance of success, according to Nenad Milic, Deputy Interior Minister and leader of the police investigation. "They believed that the police would stay put and not step out of the box," Milic told Time. Instead, the assassination produced a massive crackdown against criminal elements of the old regime still operating in Serbia's security forces, as well as a broader - and equally overdue - attack on organized crime. Codenamed Operation Sabre, it was the largest police investigation in Serbian history. As police began sending their evidence - literally by the truckload...
...said a change in mentality, not a crackdown, is necessary...
...from the usual overbooked 120% this time of year. A planned visit by President Bush and a World Economic Forum event have been scrubbed. "The drop-off in visitors is worse than 1989," grumbles a Shanghai foreign-affairs official, referring to the foreign exodus after the Tiananmen crackdown...
After sentencing 78 dissidents and independent journalists to as much as 27 years in prison last week, Cuban President Fidel Castro has raised the stakes in his most severe crackdown in decades. Last Friday three men who tried to hijack a ferry to Florida earlier this month were summarily executed--jolting human rights activists already outraged over the imprisonment of the dissidents, accused by Castro of being in the service...
This story hasn’t gotten nearly enough attention—understandable, though, given the momentous events taking place in the Middle East. Still, it has sparked a renewed discussion among lawmakers over America’s Cuba policy. All are repulsed at Havana’s latest crackdown. Even Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., a longtime proponent of engagement with Castro, said the sweeping arrests “call into question the very legitimacy of the Cuban state...