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An hour after sunset on that Saturday, Lees and 28-year-old Peter Falconio, six months into the Australian leg of their round-the-world holiday, were cruising in their orange Volkswagen campervan?Falconio at the wheel?when a white four-wheel-drive pickup drew alongside. The driver gestured that...
The cases being investigated against the Israeli prime minister concern the 1982 massacre of some 2,000 Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut by Lebanese militiamen allied with Israel. An Israeli government inquiry the following year had found Sharon "indirectly responsible" for the massacre. The current...
Chinese well remember the disastrous boycott of the Moscow Olympics in 1980 after Russia invaded Afghanistan. A bit of military adventurism with China's nemesis, Taiwan, seems more unlikely between today and 2008. Now that Beijing will play host to the world, it might also have to tone down its...
The other place they may have room to maneuver is the venue for lawsuits - Norwood allows suits in state courts while Fletcher only opens the doors very slightly to state suits. And Dennis Hastert said Thursday that Bush is considering an expansion of the state suit option.
Lumumba's flirtation with the Russians led the U.S. , Belgium and other Western powers to look for a more malleable alternative to rule the Congo. They settled on Lumumba's former aide, Joseph Desire Mobutu, who had been promoted to head of the army. Mobutu was flooded with Western money...