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...escort. Israeli officials fear his absence will damage the Middle East peace process, in which he was intensely involved. Prime Minister Ehud Barak considers him a trusted conduit for exchanges with Washington. Albright defends her decision. "Ambassadors have a responsibility to protect classified documents," she told TIME. But the crackdown could make doing their job more difficult...
...supporting the international crackdown on blood diamonds, the cartel is also helping itself by preventing competitors from flooding the market with cheap gems. But while De Beers' cooperation with the embargo may spare the industry the sort of organized boycott that shook the fur trade in the 1980s, it probably won't stamp out trafficking. De Beers claims that only 3% of the global diamond supply comes from African conflict regions. London analysts believe the amount may be as high...
...leadership is maintaining order and social control, and liberalizing the economy will necessarily bring unemployment and uncertainty to millions of ordinary Chinese, raising the specter of massive social unrest that could potentially tear China apart. The depth of that fear among the leadership was evident in last year's crackdown on the apparently harmless Falun Gong religious sect, and it will almost certainly act as a brake on Beijing's implementing the economic liberalization measures to which it has agreed. So while the Senate vote ends the annual unpleasantness between Beijing and Washington when Congress would rattle its saber...
...part of a crackdown on China's alleged theft of U.S. nuclear secrets, the FBI found that Lee, a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist, had downloaded classified information to his home computer. Lacking any evidence that those secrets were leaked to any foreign country, the FBI charged Lee with 59 counts of mishandling classified information--not quite espionage, but still punishable with a life sentence. Government prosecutors successfully argued that Lee should not be set free on bail before trial, since he represented a "a clear and present danger to the security of the United States." And so Lee spent...
...school won an "exemplary" state rating. But just one year later, only 62% passed. What happened? In 1998, 39% of students SAT out the exam after they were deemed "special ed," a designation generally confined to students with severe learning disabilities. The next year, after a district crackdown, only 24% received the exemption...