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...been interesting to read an article by one of the Japanese nationals kidnapped by North Korean agents. The victim could have described being forced to start a new life in an alien country and then, finally, being allowed to return to Japan. These Japanese were brutally snatched from their homeland and upon returning there had to leave behind children raised as North Koreans, not Japanese. Asami Oishi Osaka...
...This is my homeland ... no one can kick me out." YASSER ARAFAT, Palestinian leader, after Israel's security cabinet announced a decision to "remove...
...With so much invested in their homeland, Rana and Bhandari say they have little choice but to stay. "We still feel we have something to contribute," says Bhandari. Rana is more emphatic, arguing that as entrepreneurs, taxpayers and employers, individuals like he and Bhandari did more to bring Nepal into the modern age and alleviate hardship than any politician, diplomat or revolutionary zealot. "You know, I built this out of a cowshed," he says, gazing out over his empty, impeccably tasteful dream. "Everyone thought I was mad, and perhaps even more so now. But I wasn't, you know...
...Homeland Insecurity Re "The War Comes Home," on Americans' doubts about the case for the Iraq conflict [July 28]: Whenever a bright light is shined on one of President George W. Bush's justifications for the invasion, it seems to have barely enough substance to cast a shadow. Misleading Congress and the American public into waging a war should attract the attention of the House of Representatives. Such behavior surely exceeds the standard for impeachment set for President Bill Clinton over comparatively trivial untruths having nothing to do with his presidential duties. Charles J. Pitts Manassas...
...Chechen rebellion [July 21]. Although journalist and politician Yuri Shchekochikhin, who died suddenly last month, predicted a wave of suicide bombings?saying "We have entered a new stage. It's Palestine"?he was wrong to identify that conflict with the Chechen rebellion. The Palestinians are fighting to reclaim their homeland. The Chechens call their struggle a "war of liberation." They say Chechnya never voluntarily joined Russia and was conquered only by military force. For its part, the Russian government calls the war an antiterrorist operation. Ashhad Ikram Alam Karachi...