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...presence of the Montagnards is causing controversy in Cambodia. Prime Minister Hun Sen has said they are not refugees but "illegal immigrants," and might be a rebel movement set on establishing an independent state in the Central Highlands. Cambodia's King Sihanouk, in contrast, has strongly supported the asylum seekers. "The Montagnards are deprived of their ancestral lands, their forests, their houses, their cattle," he wrote in a letter of support last week...
...voters may choose the sequel to a wild ride over a four-year courtship with Kerry and Edwards. But if this is so, how to explain the surprise-hit status of Fahrenheit 9/11? Simple. It too is a sequel: the latest in the continuing adventures of Michael Moore, populist rebel with a cause. Remember Bowling for Columbine, kids, when Mike confronted the gun lobby and vanquished an aged Charlton Heston? Now our capped crusader aims to bring down the President of the U.S. - for real...
...Delaying the election may be a riskier proposition than actually holding one. But even if the poll date remains firm, the jockeying of rival parties for position in the election campaign could produce confrontations of a more complex nature. For example, the movement of Moqtada Sadr, the firebrand Shiite rebel cleric who has waged a guerrilla war against Coalition forces since April, has been invited to participate in the committee to select delegates for a national congress to advise the new government, but has refused to accept only one seat on that committee on the grounds that it represents many...
...staff at the Public Development Institute in Nazran, the main town in the tiny Northern Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, heard gunfire. For the next three hours they watched as gunmen attacked the nearby headquarters of the Interior Ministry and the Russian border guards. The gunmen - apparently rebels from neighboring Chechnya - "appeared from nowhere," Aliyev recalls, and they left the same way, leaving the Ministry buildings and military sites in four towns in ruins, and almost 100 police, soldiers and civilians dead, among them the republic's Interior Ministry leadership. Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed for years that...
...first nomination in May. A second rejection would trigger a general election in August; Euro-skeptic parties currently lead in opinion polls. Courting the E.U. TURKEY The appeals court in Ankara freed four former Kurdish M.P.s, jailed for 15 years in 1994 on charges of collaborating with separatist rebels. Among the four - who face retrial in July - was Leyla Zana, winner of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize. Brussels had warned Turkey that the M.P.'s detention jeopardized its chances of joining the E.U., whose leaders will decide in December whether to open accession negotiations with Ankara . Ultimately...