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...canaries went first. policemen in protective suits, ridiculous-looking things with gas detectors hanging out in front, bore the cages before them as they made their way grimly through the country road in the Mount Fuji foothills toward what looked to be a factory compound. It was 7 a.m. There were more than a thousand police; those who didn't wear protective suits watched the canaries closely. If the compound doors opened and the birds died, they would flee for their lives...
Five minutes later, the Peugeot exploded, blowing the facade off the nearest five-floor apartment building. At least 63 people were wounded, but miraculously, no one died. The intended targets were the women and children living in the complex: they are the families of policemen, whom Islamists had promised to attack if female fundamentalists were not released from prison...
...Mandela's problems lies. The person who has received the most attention recently, both for embarrassing the government and for possibly feathering her nest, is Mandela's estranged wife Winnie. Two weeks ago in Johannesburg, at the funeral of a black police officer killed in a fight with white policemen, Winnie Mandela addressed the crowd of mourners. She accused the government of failing to eliminate racism from the workplace and of ``overindulgence in reconciliation'' with whites. ``Are we in power,'' she demanded, ``or just in the government...
...went after policemen and firemen and teachers who did not live in the city but claimed the city as their residence," Samp says. "Many believed that if you were born in Cambridge, you had a right to vote in Cambridge for the rest of your life no matter where you lived...
...servicing was done by G.I.G.N. men wearing -- in an ironic reversal of how the hijack had started in Algiers -- airport staff uniforms. The troopers were able to ascertain that the plane's doors were not blocked or booby- trapped. According to some accounts, the policemen also slipped tiny eavesdropping devices into the aircraft. Along with external surveillance devices -- infrared-vision equipment and "cannon" microphones trained on the windows and fuselage -- the bugs would have allowed the gendarmes to follow the hijackers' movements inside the aircraft...