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...surrounded by a crowd of 30,000, he spoke of the death of 15 local people in recent police actions. He denounced the government for its brutality, for its determination to keep the country's black majority in check, and for its decision to give the security forces free rein to stamp out dissent...
...Negroponte is to rein in the conflicting interests of such a far-flung bureaucracy, he will need firm backing from President Bush. Otherwise, bureaucratic rivalries, exacerbated by overlapping duties and jurisdictions, could perpetuate the mess that Senator Robb and judge Silberman say must be cleaned...
...Lake Tribal Council took strong measures in the days after the shootings to rein in press access to their sprawling reservation. On Tuesday tribal chairman Floyd Jourdain Jr. announced that reporters must stay inside a fenced parking lot next to the reservation detention center. Reporters caught roaming the reservation suffered tough penalties. Many were escorted off tribal land and instructed never to return. Two photographers were arrested and spent the night in jail. Two others were pulled over at gunpoint by tribal police. Police confiscated their cameras. "This is insane," said Bill McAuliffe, a reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune...
...Rangpur, police told local reporters that two arrested militants claimed to be part of a 15,000-strong militia aiming to "bring about an Islamic revolution." And talking to reporters while in custody, the Arabic professor Al Galib?who denies links with extremists?warned that any campaign to rein in fundamentalism would fail. "Whether we are hanged or jailed, our movement will continue," he declared. Until last week, that seemed guaranteed. Now, finally, Bangladesh can hope that he is wrong...
...teachers cursed Christians and Jews, that it was just words and there would be no impact. It is said that communists take control of a country using trade unions and Arab nationalists take control through the military. Well, the Islamists take control through the schools. We gave them free rein starting in the 1960s. They have penetrated everywhere, and it is difficult to roll back...