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...internment camps during the war?is familiar material. But Otsuka, through various devices such as the use of characters without names, manages to make universal the psychological torment of wartime prejudice without wallowing in sentimentality. Starting with the arrest of the father of the clan in a midnight FBI raid, Otsuka spins out the story from the perspective of each family member. First, the characters lose their freedom as they are trucked off to a camp in desolate Utah. Ultimately, they lose their identity, returning to their vandalized home some three years later simmering with self-loathing: "We looked...
...discoveries could destabilize a region already dangerously on edge in anticipation of war in Iraq. Israel - which destroyed an Iraqi nuclear plant in Osirak in a 1981 raid - is deeply alarmed by the developments. "It's a huge concern," says one Israeli official. "Iran is a regime that denies Israel's right to exist in any borders and is a principal sponsor of Hezbollah. If that regime were able to achieve a nuclear potential it would be extremely dangerous." Israel will not take the "Osirak option" off the table, the official says, but "would prefer that this issue be solved...
...region. A member of the Palestinian group Hamas killed 15 people and injured 40 when he blew himself up on a bus in the port city of Haifa, the first such attack in two months. Shortly afterward, 11 Palestinians were killed and more than 100 wounded in a raid by Israeli troops on the Gaza refugee camp of Jabalya. Israeli officials denied accusations by the Palestinian Authority that the raid had been a revenge attack. In further violence, Palestinian gunmen killed two Israelis in a West Bank settlement, and a Hamas leader died in an assault by Israeli attack helicopters...
...Pablo Escobar lashed out at government efforts to rein in his cocaine cartel. The FARC is similarly piqued by Uribe's counterinsurgency efforts and recent U.S. aid increases for Colombia's weak but improving military. Last Friday, at least 16 people were killed in an explosion during a police raid in the southern city of Neiva that authorities attributed to the guerrillas. Uribe and Washington "are only making things worse for themselves," a FARC commander told TIME last year. Most Colombians can't imagine how things could get worse than they already...
...Time correspondent observed that the state-controlled media has cranked up anti-American rhetoric for its domestic audience?a recent TV segment just before the evening news featured grisly photos of dead babies allegedly killed by U.S. bombing during the Korean War. There were also reports of air-raid sirens during a civil-defense drill in Pyongyang last week. But there was no sign of other unusual activity in the quiet capital or on either side of the demilitarized zone...