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...FREED. GUNTER PARCHE, 39, assailant of tennis star Monica Seles; by a judge; in Hamburg, Germany. Almost more shocking than the courtside stabbing of Seles during an April tournament was the decision handed down in the case by Judge Elke Bosse -- a suspended sentence. Bosse cited Parche's psychological problems and his expressions of remorse for the attack, which Parche claims was motivated by a desire to boost the prospects of Seles' rival Steffi Graf. The 19-year-old Seles was appalled by the sentence. ''What kind of message does this send to the world?'' she asked...
Nabi's pessimism is very common now in Afghanistan. There has been a dramatic series of recent attacks by the Taliban: a mass assault on a jail freed hundreds of prisoners, and a suicide bombing outside the Indian embassy on July 7 killed 40 and injured over 100. Many of these assaults are planned and supported from safe havens across the border in the tribal areas of Pakistan. Western troop casualties are climbing; the last two months exceeded the monthly death toll in Iraq. On July 13, nine U.S. soldiers were killed when Taliban fighters swarmed over their base...
...nation to run. Mandela's leadership was unquestioned. In stark contrast Betancourt has emerged as a lone woman with no political constituency and no clear home, geographically or politically. (She has apparently also left her husband in Bogota, after giving him a perfunctory hug the day she was freed.) That outsider status is familiar ground for Betancourt, who was raised not among the poor masses, as Mandela was, but as an aristocratic expatriate on the plush Avenue Foche in Paris, where her father was a diplomat...
...return to Colombia, or what exactly her role will be. But she clearly has her eye on returning to Colombian politics, having penned a 190-point program while she was a hostage. And her giant fame could reignite her prospects: About 31% of Colombians polled the day she was freed said they would vote for her for president, and Jorge Londono, who runs the Invamer-Gallup polling company in the South American country, told The Guardian newspaper that the survey showed that "undoubtedly she will be an important player...
...Colombia Worry for Those Left Behind A week after the daring July 2 operation that freed former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and 14 others, some have expressed concern that the high-profile rescue did nothing to aid the nearly 700 others still held by Colombia's FARC rebels; one captive's mother referred to Betancourt as a "trophy hostage." Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whose revolution inspired the group's creation in the 1960s, called for an unconditional release of all FARC captives, while stopping short of asking the group to surrender. Meanwhile, two rebels detained in the rescue face...