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...after China sweetened a much criticized U.S. trade deal with a promise to reopen dialogue over its dismal human-rights policies, the Chinese government detained a leading dissident and veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest. Police took the dissident, Wang Dan, from his home for questioning but released him seven hours later. That's the second time he's been detained since U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown arrived Saturday for a Beijing visit. Brown had declared yesterday's offer a vindication of the U.S. decision to stop threatening to link China's most-favored-nation trade status and human...
...week; on Monday alone, 1,486 were picked up at sea, the largest single number in one day since the September 1991 military coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. With the current processing center on a Navy ship off Jamaica already jammed, President Bill Clinton was forced to reopen the old facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba to handle the overflow. "This should have been anticipated," said Ernest Preeg, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former U.S. ambassador to Haiti. "And I think the surge will continue...
...short run both Presidents benefit from their decision to reopen formal talks in Geneva, set to begin next week. Kim takes the steam out of the rising crisis over his apparent effort to build nuclear weapons and diverts the world's attention to what Washington might offer him at the bargaining table. For his part, Clinton wins a respite from his effort to round up support for U.N. sanctions against North Korea -- a campaign that was not going well. If Clinton has to try for sanctions again later, he will be able to say to reluctant countries like China...
...Nation of Islam operates restaurants, bakeries and fish markets. Members tithe, and some have donated for decades to buy farmland, a scheme Farrakhan pledges to finally put into action this summer. He vows to open a $3 million restaurant-and-bakery complex on Chicago's South Side, reopen a Nation of Islam supermarket and build a printing plant for the Final Call big enough to rent space. He recently bought a Chicago "business center" to house management and media operations as he expands into TV. He already has Nation of Islam bookstores that do a brisk business in tapes...
Other faithful Louie's customers are satisfied merely to have their nearest convenience store reopen...