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...Even if Kim should fall to a U.S. onslaught, it's unlikely there will be post-overthrow photographs of joyful North Koreans celebrating the demise of their oppressor. Kim keeps the public in constant fear of a U.S. attack to maintain his grip on power. Schoolchildren are instructed to chant "The U.S. is our worst enemy" in front of the U.S.S. Pueblo, an American spy ship captured by the North Koreans in 1968 that is still on display on the banks of the Daedong River in Pyongyang. They win school sporting contests by being the first to use a wooden...
Allowed to leave his Somerville apartment only to meet with his attorney or doctors, Pring-Wilson must also meet weekly with a probation officer, avoid drug use and alcohol consumption, surrender his passport and maintain no contact with witnesses in the case. He must stay in Massachusetts for the duration of the trial unless he obtains special permission from the court, Hines ruled yesterday...
...Javanese who set fire to the Joint Security Committee office in Langsa arrived in army trucks. ?We believe the differences between the two sides are still not that great,? says Steve Daly, a Henry Dunant Centre spokesman. ?Nobody's packing up yet.? That kind of optimism is hard to maintain when talking stops and shooting begins...
Despite a clean start by the Crimson, Yale and the Tigers cleared the rest of the field and established themselves as the boats to beat, battling for early race position. Harvard, meanwhile, attempted to fight off Columbia just to maintain the third spot...
Committee members agree that Harvard must maintain its scholars’ abilities to pursue their academic work freely and publish their findings—in spite of the ambiguity of the government’s sensitive classification, Adelstein says...