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...After the blaze, authorities ordered all of Beijing's 2,400 Internet cafés - most of them illegal - to close while safety checks are performed. The closures have spread to other cities as well. Internet users accused the city government of using the fire as an excuse to crack down on one of the few arenas for free expression in China. PHILIPPINES Cult Deaths Seventeen people died in a gun battle between police and cult members on the southern island of Dinagat. Fighting erupted when an armed police unit tried to arrest cult leader Ruben Ecleo on suspicion...
...current troubles are hardly the first time the agency has been plunged into controversy. Three years after the death of FBI Director J. EDGAR HOOVER, the legend of the man once known as America's chief crime fighter was beginning to crack...
...whatever emerges, both Democrats and Republicans say this is one fight that promises to be so big and complicated that he will have to engage. His surprise announcement created a surge of momentum behind his proposal, but it could quickly disintegrate. "Only the President has the power to 'crack heads,'" the centrist Democratic Leadership Council noted in its daily bulletin. "If he doesn't do so, then reorganization won't accomplish much, especially in the crucial short term...
...part, has been pressing Musharraf to make good on a pledge he made on Jan. 12 to curtail the Kashmiri militants and crack down on extremist groups that had been promoting terrorism. As a result, the groups Musharraf banned, which after the January speech merely changed their names and bank-account numbers, went further underground. Whether Musharraf has control over these groups remains doubtful. "Our objective is death to India by a thousand cuts. And we believe Kashmir will break the back of the camel and will result in the disintegration of the whole of India," says a top commander...
...past routinely denied court orders ordering the release of detainees held without due process - but with all this talk of reforming and democratizing the PA in the air, a ruling that puts the rule of law and separation of powers at odds with the demand that Arafat crack down on Israel's most wanted highlights the political crisis. Israel and the U.S. want a Palestinian leadership that cracks down on militancy, but doing that will require an authoritarian strongman ready to enforce his will against the tide of Palestinian public opinion. If, as has been widely reported recently, Washington...