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...procedures have often frustrated other governments. French authorities are still awaiting the extradition of Rachid Ramda, an Algerian arrested in Britain in 1995 for his alleged role in the Paris Métro bombings of that year. And the U.S. currently wants five terrorism suspects in British custody, including Lotfi Raissi, who has been accused by prosecutors of training four of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots. Khalid al-Fawwaz, wanted in the U.S. for his alleged role in the 1998 American embassy bombings in Africa, faces his last appeal against extradition this month. "Britain has been too tolerant," argues Jorgen...
...1970s, when criminal-justice priorities shifted to protecting citizens' rights. Ashcroft has brought it back; as of Friday, some 700 people had been locked up as result of the Sept. 11 investigation - and "a couple hundred" more had been arrested overseas with FBI help. One of them, Algerian pilot Lotfi Raissi, arrested in London, has been charged with failing to report his previous knee surgery when applying for a pilot's license. "We have to use every tool available to us," says a top Justice Department official. "That includes detaining people, looking for violations, being aggressive...
...this is another in a series of strong American opera premieres during the past few years, which has also included Philip Glass's The Voyage and William Bolcom's McTeague. San Francisco Opera general director Lotfi Mansouri speaks of sharing Liaisons with the Lyric Opera of Chicago and taking McTeague in return; it is an excellent idea, for both works merit second and third productions, and not just in this country...
This month, as the 1988 season opens and new General Director Lotfi Mansouri takes command, the road back begins. During his tenure, Adler had transformed ! the San Francisco Opera from a regional ensemble devoted largely to Italian opera into an international powerhouse that won renown by presenting major works, like Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, for the first time in the U.S., and by offering major American opera debuts to Leontyne Price, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Sir Georg Solti. While never equaling New York City's Metropolitan Opera in either budget (currently $23.7 million vs. $88 million) or length...
...Tenor Luciano Pavarotti and Soprano Renata Scotto. San Francisco is his territory, the town that virtually takes credit for his American success; the lady is understandably apprehensive. She is a warm and pretty woman and also a diva who knows the craft of staging and upstaging. From Stage Director Lotfi Mansouri she seeksand getsendless reassurance...