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...needs facts? This was a debate carried to a Platonic level of abstraction, with little firsthand information to get in the way of the warring factions' preconceptions. For conservatives, the demon was a snobby, radical media-entertainment industry; for liberals, an overreaching, freedom-averse ruling party. ("Right-wing thought police declare Reagan, like dissent, off-limits," cried People for the American Way, as if this would lead inevitably to storm troopers forcing audiences to watch Fox News at gunpoint...
...forcing the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) underground. The party is reorganizing its communication structure, relying more on door-to-door campaigning and radio stations that beam broadcasts in from outside the country. Seven months ago, wishful reports from within and outside Zimbabwe suggested that Mugabe, 79, a freedom fighter turned dictator, might finally be close to stepping down. Instead, he's been tightening his grip. Many take this to mean he is planning to stay. But since ZANU-PF is embroiled in a succession struggle after the death in September of Vice President Simon Muzenda, others believe Mugabe...
...York - A Unocal consultant warned Unocal in 1992 that "throughout Burma, the government habitually makes use of forced labor" and that "in such circumstances Unocal and its partners will have little freedom of maneuver," TIME's Adam Zagorin reports. TIME has obtained recently unsealed court documents that challenge U.S. oil giant Unocal's assertion that "if there were any possibility" that their oil pipeline project in Burma "was connected with human rights abuses, this would absolutely be unacceptable...
...allow the Palestinians to hold new presidential elections is precisely because the smart money says Arafat would be easily reelected, despite considerable hostility among his own constituents to the corruption and ineptitude of his regime. Moreover, the suggestion that the only thing standing between the Palestinians and their freedom is Yasser Arafat is taken, in the Arab world, as an Orwellian attempt to distract attention from the reluctance of the Bush administration to restrain Ariel Sharon's creeping annexation of an ever-growing portion of the West Bank...
...campus organizations strongly believe in the traditions of freedom, liberty and free speech. When the FBI intimidates potential witnesses, federal prosecutors unfairly prolong trials and the police red-flag certain citizens because of their political activism, the United States of America begins to look less like the home of freedom and more like a police state. We have a duty to ensure that students at Harvard understand what is happening to civil liberties in America...