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...week after Robert Mugabe won another term in a presidential election widely regarded as rigged, it's back to business as usual in Zimbabwe. Opposition leader and presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai was formally charged with treason for allegedly plotting to assassinate Mugabe, another white farmer was killed by marauders, the son of a human-rights activist was beaten, and youth militia went on a rampage against supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Tsvangirai, the third MDC official to be arraigned on the treason charge, was released on bail and had to surrender his passport. "It was expected...
...further than can be measured in mere miles--from Kosovo's valleys to the imposing courtroom of the first International War Crimes Tribunal since the aftermath of World War II. Fehim Elshani, 67, a Kosovo Albanian, made the journey. Looking dignified in a three-piece suit, the accountant turned farmer took his place in the witness chair, shifting his body so that his back was turned to the defendant--who was also doing the questioning. In a show of disrespect, Elshani refused to face the man he holds responsible for the seven dead bodies he found in his yard...
...rebels' increasing savagery that has struck terror across the Himalayan kingdom. One 32-year-old subsistence farmer from western Nepal was singled out for a random nighttime attack three months ago. "We heard a group of women chanting in the dark 'Long Live the Maoist Party of Nepal,'" says the man in a hospital in Kathmandu. "They rushed in. They were all dressed in white, all with short hair, the youngest about 15 and the oldest no more than 22. They took me out on the porch where they bound my hands behind my back and tied my legs together...
...excrement up and down twisting Phoenix Mountain trails and mine coal from primitive pits, theirs is not just another grim and baleful tale of forced labor. For these pals are merry pranksters at heart whose spirits never falter. At their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically correct and resourceful - if grossly inaccurate - response...
After 32 years in the business, Hong Kong poultry farmer Lam Po-sang has seen his share of sick chickens. "Chickens usually die gradually," he says. So when about one-quarter of his 140,000 stock was suddenly wiped out in three days, Lam was shocked. He'd never seen anything like it. "One minute they were flapping their wings," he says, "the next they were dead...