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...July 28, a traveling salesman from Laos left Bangkok for asylum in the U.S. Va Char Yang, 38, now lives in Oroville, California, with his wife, Mai Vang, and three small children. A year earlier, in Laos, he had been sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes including possession of illegal explosives and drugs. At the time, U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said that the trial fell "well short of international standards of jurisprudence." Va Char had been arrested while escorting two European journalists and their American Hmong translator out of the jungle in Xaysomboune Special Zone...
...Camp Zama, outside Tokyo. Jenkins, who disappeared while on patrol near the Demilitarized Zone in Korea in 1965, was at the center of a sensational diplomatic tussle to reunite him with his Japanese wife, a former captive of the North, earlier this year. If convicted he faces life in prison but is expected to strike a deal for a lighter sentence...
Harold, who declined the Party’s offer to prepare a speech for her and instead wrote her own, talked about her visit to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, a prison which she said had experienced a 50 percent decline in violence among inmates after it implemented religious programs...
Harold said that she had been impressed that the inmates at the Louisiana prison were not “full of despair.” They built a chapel, ran a radio station that played religious music and gave money to charity...
...found his heart disease to be extensive, with some of his arteries over 90% blocked; in New York City. The former President was released from the hospital Friday. SENTENCED. FRANK QUATTRONE, 48, former investment banker to high-flying Silicon Valley companies during the Internet boom; to 18 months in prison; in New York City. He is appealing a May conviction for hindering a federal stock investigation involving Credit Suisse First Boston, but will be forced to begin serving prison time in late October while the appeal is pending. SENTENCED. SIMON MANN, 51, British former special forces soldier and supplier...