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...Bangladeshis, who have to cope with frequent cyclones from the Indian Ocean and regular outbursts of violence on the streets of their own cities, are a tough, stoic lot who don't frighten easily. But a wave of extortion, murder and kidnapping that is washing over the country of 140 million has many worried that the nation may be sliding into anarchy. The Bureau of Human Rights Bangladesh says 971 people have been killed since the start of the year. Says Badruddoza Chowdhury, former President of Bangladesh: "Never have crime and extortion taken place on such a big scale...
...Home Affairs Minister and the Prime Minister did not respond to TIME's questions about the deterioration of law and order. Dhaka police commissioner Huda insists "there is no crisis." He charges that local media are sensationalizing the problem, and says official records indicate that the murder rate is actually declining in the capital. But on the streets of the city, that claim is met mostly with derision. So far, nine businessmen have been shot dead in broad daylight this year for refusing to pay up to extortionists, and many of Dhaka's shopkeepers now no longer rely...
...ordered this level of cooperation because I consider it necessary to gaining a complete picture of the months and years that preceded the murder of our fellow citizens on September 11th." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, on why, after initially refusing, he decided to allow National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to testify under oath before the independent commission investigating the 9/11 terrorist attacks...
...CONVICTED. LESLEY MARTIN, 40, intensive-care nurse and prominent campaigner for voluntary euthanasia; for the attempted murder of her terminally ill mother in 1999; in Auckland. Police began investigating Martin after she self-published To Die Like a Dog, a book detailing the events that led to her mother's death. She faces up to 10 years in prison...
...motorists for months and left one woman dead; after a tip led authorities to a motel where he was staying; in Las Vegas. An arrest warrant charged McCoy with felonious assault in a shooting on an occupied house, but he is expected to face more serious charges, possibly including murder, when he's returned to Ohio...