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...locked up backing from anti-gun Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts, the upper chamber will probably send it to the President for his signature. "All sides of the political spectrum recognize that pilots need to be able to defend the cockpit with lethal force," says Stephen Luckey, a former 747 captain who is the security chief for the Air Line Pilots Association...
...addicted to sleeping pills. His son is a pothead. The stepmother Mika (Isabelle Huppert) wanders about with a benign half-smile on her face, lacing the family's bedtime hot chocolate with a potent--and in her hands potentially lethal--soporific. The Swiss chateau is an unlikely stoner's paradise--and maybe, in Chabrol's mind, a metaphor for the way the bourgeois sleepwalk around their problems. Merci pour le Chocolat occasionally succumbs to Mika's legato rhythms, but it is more often a sly, subtle comedy about the oh-so-gentle art of murder. --By Richard Schickel
Malaysia's drive to rid itself of hundreds of thousands of illegal foreign workers has turned into an embarrassing and lethal disaster. In the last several days, 14 Filipinos and more than 50 Indonesians reportedly died in make-shift border camps thrown together by local authorities to house the hordes of displaced returnees. Most of the dead were children suffering from dehydration and disease...
...came amid growing tension among Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines over Malaysia's new immigration laws, which stipulate that illegal workers face imprisonment and caning. JAPAN Germ War Judges in Tokyo acknowledged for the first time that the Japanese army in the early 1940s waged germ warfare and conducted lethal bio-weapons experiments on people in China. The decision will embarrass the Japanese government, which for many years denied the existence of such experiments. Nonetheless, the Tokyo district court rejected claims for compensation from 180 Chinese plaintiffs who said relatives were killed by Unit 731 of the Japanese army based...
...most lethal of Europe's recent disasters, however, was unrelated to the storms that so devastated Central Europe. Tourist settlements near the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk were hit Aug. 8 by tornados and flash floods that destroyed 424 houses and killed 59 people. The death toll there is expected to climb as rescuers get to cars washed away by the floods or crushed by falling trees and buildings. --Reported by Uwe Gunther, Charles P. Wallace and Regine Wosnitza/ Berlin, Jan Stojaspal/Prague and Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow