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...Siddique was the most experienced in guerrilla warfare, the most defiant and considered the most dangerous of the trio by his jailers because he had tried to grab a policeman's revolver shortly after he was arrested. "This man would shoot us all if he saw a chance to escape," muttered the Indian officer in charge. The prisoners, seated in a dim interrogation cell, said Islamabad would not demand their extradition because it did not acknowledge their presence in Kashmir. Said Mahmood: "We all knew, when we came, that we might not be able to go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three the Very Hard Way | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...undertake the climb midweek will, more likely than not, have the summit to themselves. Few experiences can match sitting aloft and alone on Mount Ramelau, enjoying a good Portuguese red with crackers, while watching shards of sunlight pierce the clouds, illuminating the valley below. "God lives up there," the policeman in Hatu Buliko had told me before I began the climb. He's probably right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

...SENTENCED. LI DAWEI, 40, a former policeman in China's northwestern Gansu province; to 11 years in prison for using the Internet to access "antirevolutionary" material; in Tianshui. Arrested in April and currently appealing in the provincial supreme court, Li was accused of downloading and printing some 500 "reactionary" documents, the first person in the country convicted on such charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

...Koizumi's two visits have annoyed Seoul and Beijing, the three lawsuits (originally filed by about 900 people in November) are unlikely to get the official backing of either government.opment measures. Aid to individual farmers will be capped at $300,000. U.S. Caught on Tape Jeremy Morse, a white policeman, was filmed beating Donovan Jackson, a black teenager, at a gas station in Inglewood, California. Jackson, 16, filed a civil-rights suit against four police officers, including Morse, and the city of Inglewood. The U.S. Justice Department opened a civil-rights investigation into the incident. Mitchell Crooks, who was staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 7/14/2002 | See Source »

...demands that the U.S. be treated as special. In fact, it is. The failure of the Bush Administration is its inability to articulate why other countries profit from America's military power. No other nation, or group of nations, could conceivably replace the U.S. as the world's policeman; but like it or not, that American role will be played on American terms. Europeans should ask themselves whether, right now, the ICC is worth more than continued American engagement in the world. The answer is easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Is Right to Refuse World Court | 7/9/2002 | See Source »

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