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SOUTH ASIA New Tensions on the Line of Control Pakistan began pulling back troops from its border with Afghanistan as President Pervez Musharraf warned that they would be deployed along the Indian frontier if tensions over Kashmir are not defused. Such a move would be largely symbolic, since Pakistan and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 6/2/2002 | See Source »

The man everyone knows as Buddy is in an expansive mood, considering he spent most of the day in a fluorescent-lighted federal courtroom where 12 jurors are considering whether to put him in prison for the rest of his life on charges that include racketeering, extortion, bribery, mail fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Buddy Beat The Rap? | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

That would be the allegation that in return for building permits, Cianci extorted a free lifetime membership from a fancy downtown club that hadn't deigned to reply to his application in the mid-1970s. The mayor confirms that when club officials went to him for help, one wearing a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Buddy Beat The Rap? | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

He is under a gag order that prevents him from discussing the case. Yet Cianci, paraphrasing the local media's assessment, says his lawyer, Richard Egbert of Boston, "ripped through the main witness against me"--David Ead, who pleaded guilty in February 2000 to extortion and claims to have arranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Buddy Beat The Rap? | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

Afterward, the underworld in Bombay began to enjoy a stature it had not possessed before the riots. Muslim street toughs and hoodlums became newly respectable, as defenders of the community and their faith. After the blasts, many of the plotters went "upstairs." I met some of them in Dubai; they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gangsters in Exile | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

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