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Davis' business model might be called a Mannheim for All Seasons, which is also the name of one of his CD collections. Last year's Romantic Melodies targeted Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Easter. American Spirit, a collection including America the Beautiful and Star Spangled Banner, hit the window from Memorial Day to July 4. Davis keeps a hand in all phases of Mannheim Steamroller production. He composes, arranges and plays drums with the band. As owner of the label, he rakes in as much as $6 on every album sold, compared with the $1 or less many...
...Since Easter, security has been ratcheted up in the Highlands. Relatives of people who have fled their towns, either for the border with Cambodia or for closer hideouts, are regularly questioned by police and local officials. Some are made to take loyalty oaths, which one district leader in Dak Nong province refers to as "brotherhood ceremonies." Farmers are followed to their fields, their shopping is monitored lest they buy food for those in hiding, and security personnel are billeted in people's homes, particularly those with relatives who earlier fled to the U.S. (Highlands officials say government representatives live...
...evidence, the government cites confessions, separatist banners allegedly carried in the marches, and the fact that Ksor announced prior to Easter that the protests would take place. Several Montagnards, including Ksor's uncle and mother, have denounced him in the state-controlled media. Dak Lak officials screened for TIME four minutes of edited video footage in which some protesters indeed advance on riot police and militiamen, but it's impossible to tell from the fragment who started the clashes, and the rest of the tape wasn't made available. Gia Lai Governor Pham The Dung even goes...
...house in Ayun Pa district. Sounding exhausted and heartbroken, she wants to speak not of the son who went to America in 1974 and whom the government blames for all the trouble?"I barely know his face," she says?but of two other sons who have been missing since Easter. "I am very worried," she says softly. "Do you know where they...
...counsel to wait till the fall. Ksor says he also suggested they call it a prayer vigil, not a protest. International attention, not an independent state, Ksor adds, was the goal. However, he didn't help his cause by claiming later that 400 people were "massacred" over the Easter weekend. This wild estimate was a gambit, he says, to force Hanoi to open the region to external observers...