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...question on the minds of Iranians is whether Rafsanjani can deliver as President. His supporters insist that his experience and revolutionary credentials give him the clout to push through reforms--like greater press freedom, fewer dress-code and social restrictions, and better relations with the West--that are opposed by hard-line conservatives, who control the judiciary and security forces and are backed by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. In recent years, the mullahs have responded to the rising clamor for change by blocking reform initiatives of the elected leadership. Khatami was so intimidated by Khamenei that...
...What do you think of China today? I can't tell you how excited I am to see people's lives improving. I'm also frustrated and angry?at the lack of press freedom, the banning of my book, the injustices that could be corrected if there were the rule of law. But things have been improving. If the Chinese people are given more power to participate in politics, they will make sensible choices...
...ARRESTED. CHHUN YASITH, 48, Cambodian-American accountant and leader of the U.S.-based Cambodian Freedom Fighters; on federal charges of conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and engaging in a military expedition against a friendly nation, for allegedly orchestrating a failed 2000 coup against Cambodian leader Hun Sen; in Long Beach, California. In the attack, code named Operation Volcano, some 70 rebels unsuccessfully stormed government buildings in Phnom Penh, leaving dozens injured and eight people killed. Chhun, who has called Hun Sen's regime a puppet of Communist Vietnam, claimed at the time that the attack was a coup...
...agree with Sharon 's dismissal of Abbas' efforts to rein in the militants. There shouldn't be any compromising of the safety of Israeli citizens. Sharon is dealing with not just the Palestinian Authority but also radical terrorist organizations. Ahunwa L. Kelechi Jos, Nigeria A Case for Press Freedom While the U.S. makes efforts to establish democracy and freedom throughout the world, American government officials sometimes lose sight of what is happening in their own country. I feel that Time's Matthew Cooper [May 23] and New York Times reporter Judith Miller have done their job as journalists, which...
...same judge who mandated an eight-year prison sentence for the Harvard graduate student convicted of manslaughter last October may give him a second chance at freedom this week...