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SENTENCED. YANG JIANLI, 40, human-rights activist and permanent U.S. resident; to five years in prison for allegedly spying for Taiwan; in Beijing. Yang studied for a doctorate in math in California in the 1980s but returned to China to participate in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. After returning to the U.S.-where he earned a second Ph.D., at Harvard-Yang wrote prolifically about the need for democracy in China and was declared persona non grata by Beijing. In mid-2002, Yang returned to China on a borrowed passport to investigate labor unrest...
...DIED. WILLIAM STUART BROWN, 52, former Australian diplomat and English teacher sentenced to 13 years in prison for obscene acts with minors; by hanging himself in a jail cell; in Karangasem, Bali. Brown, who was convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy, received an unusually long sentence amid a campaign by Bali to shed its image as a pedophile's paradise...
...JAMES J. SMITH, 60, a retired agent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, to charges of lying about an affair he had with a Chinese-American woman suspected of being a double agent; in Los Angeles. Smith, a married counterintelligence official who focused on China, will probably avoid prison time. In exchange, he admitted to the affair with Katrina Leung-a married businesswoman and bureau informant-that lasted nearly two decades...
...tangled nudes, the hideous hoods, the dangling wires and the dog leash, perhaps the single most shocking thing about the images from Abu Ghraib prison is the woman in so many of the pictures: smiling broadly or giving a thumbs up or just standing casually in the demented scene as if posing in a college dorm. It's the all-American face of Private First Class Lynndie England. The girl next door, a Jessica Lynch gone wrong...
...Larry Rohter. The government said Rohter had apologized for a story he wrote suggesting President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva's drinking habits were a matter of national concern. The Times denied they either apologized or retracted the comment. MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN ... Looking for Harder Time Two prisoners who escaped from an open prison in central England turned up a day later at the doors of a more secure jail 32 km away, asking to serve the rest of their sentences there. The pair wanted to return to the more conventional cells where they had earlier managed...