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...dormitory and sang the Chinese national anthem, before shouting for the "Japanese pigs" to come out and apologize. When no one appeared, protesters broke windows with bricks, burst into the dorm and beat up two Japanese students who had had nothing to do with the dance, says a Japanese diplomat sent to investigate the case. Over the next two days crowds of students and other Xi'an residents demonstrated in public squares across the city. According to witnesses, the main gate of the campus was demolished by a mob of demonstrators trying to breech a People's Armed Police barricade...
...Japanese dancers, who are already back in Japan, have offered a written apology. Japanese diplomat Norio Saito says the four hope to return to China soon. When they do, they may want to keep their sense of humor to themselves...
...immediate responsibility for this crisis falls squarely on President Kumaratunga. "She took these decisions alone... to take power into her own hands," says Mahinda Rajapakse, vice president of Kumaratunga's People's Alliance party. A Colombo-based diplomat says international observers were "flabbergasted" by the timing of Kumaratunga's moves. Just three days earlier, the LTTE had injected new life into a peace process that had been moribund since talks were broken off in April by submitting a comprehensive set of demands to Colombo. While uncompromising, the LTTE proposals were only a starting point for negotiations, the diplomat stresses. Moreover...
When Yale offered his father, a Korean diplomat, a visiting professorship, Koh and his family moved to New Haven...
...this battle, victory went to the U.S. forces. But it seems evident that the enemy is growing bigger and bolder. "During the jihad against the Soviets, the fighters were crossing over in threes and fours," says a European diplomat in Kabul, referring to the long guerrilla struggle that finally drove the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan in 1989. Now, says the diplomat, who has access to intelligence reports, "they are coming across in hundreds." The U.N. Security Council met in closed consultations late last week to discuss the situation in Afghanistan. "It is really very bad, much worse than Iraq...