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Joshua Rubenstein, northeast regional director for Amnesty, explained that the group was not going to be protesting Kissinger’s appearance, but were demonstrating to raise the issue of his evasion of the European and South American summons. They planned to picket with signs and to handout a flier with suggested questions for audience members...
...INDIA Nagaland Unrest Fighting between police and demonstrators left 15 people dead in Manipur, northeast India. The rioters burned the state legislative assembly and other buildings in protest at a government extension of a four-year cease-fire with the separatist Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland. The government issued a "shoot-on-sight" order to police to enforce an indefinite curfew across the state...
...Falun Gong. Had it found practitioners, however, "the government would have wanted us to report them, so we would have," says a company spokesperson. Chen Gang began working in 1996 for a joint venture of Carlsberg Breweries, the Danish brewer, and quickly rose to oversee logistics for all of northeast China. Authorities last year sentenced Chen to a year in a Beijing prison for practicing Falun Gong, and tortured him when he refused to disavow his beliefs, according to relatives. Chen is due for release this week. Once he's free, however, he'll have to look...
...much is known about Li Hongzhi, 48, the man who created Falun Gong in 1992. He worked as a grain clerk in northeast China's Liaoning province. He played trumpet in a troupe run by the forestry police in neighboring Jilin. And then he wrote a very odd book that affected millions...
...problems," says Bill Richardson, who was Bill Clinton's Secretary of Energy and is now teaching public policy at Harvard. Meanwhile, utilities may be adding new power plants to the grid at the rate of one a day. Richardson says the boost should enable the Midwest and Northeast to avoid blackouts this summer. And he expects the lights to stay on in New York City, which recently rushed emergency facilities into place...