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...Three people died and more than 20 were injured in violent clashes between opponents and supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Opposition leaders, who accuse Aristide of corruption, called a two-day general strike, which shut down many businesses in Port-au-Prince. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Ye Cannae Dae That To many, the Scottish lilt is charming and even rather attractive (think Sean Connery). But not, it seems, to the British Foreign Office, which was forced to apologize for denying a Russian student a visa to study English in Scotland on the grounds that she would have difficulty understanding...
...enforcement officials. At a town-hall-style meeting in March, Roh told a gathering of prosecutors that "there will be no phone calls" from the Blue House squashing investigations. And the public is squarely behind a cleanup drive. The lead prosecutor for the campaign-financing investigation, Ahn Dae Hee?known to be fearless in pursuing politically sensitive cases?even has an Internet fan club. Under the circumstances, the Blue House "can't make the phone call even if they want to," says Kim Young Ho, an expert on Korean politics at Inha University in Inchon...
...public." In the week before his death, prosecutors grilled Chung three times?in sessions lasting up to 12 hours?over another issue altogether: a $13 million slush fund paid for by the Hyundai group that prosecutors allege was set up by a top aide to former President Kim Dae Jung. After his suicide, prosecutors said Chung might have actually channeled $21 million into the fund. Former President Kim isn't currently under investigation for the slush fund or the summit pay-offs to North Korea; with Chung's death, he might never be. At a wake for Chung, a teary...
...SENTENCED. KIM DAE-HAN, 56, who started a fire on a South Korean subway that killed 198 people in February, to life in prison; in Daegu. The court said Kim, who has a history of mental illness, appeared to be unstable when he ignited a container filled with gasoline in a botched suicide attempt...
...gain it allies for a tougher line, though, it was wrong. The Bush team said the uranium program was proof that Pyongyang could not be trusted, but critics argued that Washington's hard line had driven the North to pursue enrichment. South Korea's President at the time, Kim Dae Jung, who had pursued a "sunshine" policy toward North Korea, urged caution and more direct talks between the North and the U.S. Pyongyang's longtime protector, China, refused to support U.N. sanctions against the North despite its concerns about a nuclear-arms race on the peninsula...