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...allegiance to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the antigovernment cleric self-exiled in the U.S. Ironically, Sheik Omar's sudden notoriety as a result of the World Trade Center bombing in New York City may have helped provide President Hosni Mubarak with an excuse to order last week's bloody crackdown...
...kidvid crackdown has its troublesome aspects. For one thing, the rules apply only to broadcasting stations -- not to cable channels, which can continue to lure young viewers with all the cartoons they want. The creation of a new category of educational fare, moreover, may simply ghettoize such programming and turn kids off. The very notion of educational TV often seems to reflect narrow, schoolmarmish notions. Live-action shows are almost automatically preferred over cartoons, and some sweetly innocent shows, like Barney and Friends, seem to win approval largely because they shelter kids from the rude real world -- a strange notion...
...government has answered with a massive security crackdown on fundamentalists in Cairo and other cities. In December Mubarak ordered 14,000 police and 100 armored personnel carriers to sweep Imbaba, a Cairo neighborhood known to be a sanctuary for extremists. Hundreds of fundamentalists were arrested. Still, the antigovernment attacks continue. Authorities now worry about the proliferation of small terrorist groups; diplomats fret about ham-fisted tactics. "The danger," warns an envoy, "is that fundamentalists may attain a level of faith that invites martyrdom...
...expanding 12% a year and an untapped market of 1 billion consumers, China once again is becoming a dream destination for companies from a host of Western countries, including the U.S., Germany, France and Sweden. After being repelled by an unfavorable business climate in the wake of the Tiananmen crackdown, U.S. firms are now among the most enthusiastic newcomers to Chinese shores. Last Tuesday AT&T signed a tentative agreement with China's State Planning Commission to supply cellular telephones, central-office switching equipment and computer networks. As part of the deal, AT&T will also build several factories...
...heavy metal -- but glorifying such far-right symbols as the Nazi swastika. The music, played by some 50 bands, provides a bond for Germany's neo-Nazi movement, a suspected source for much of the xenophobic violence that has claimed 17 lives in the past year. In a swift crackdown, German police raided studios, homes and offices, confiscating thousands of records and CDs. Whether anti-Nazi laws were broken remained unclear, since the operation produced no arrests...