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...They should be very careful how and where they give it. There are also many non-governmental organizations that give aid, and they should think before giving whether [it is] really spent in the right way... they should be very careful who they support, neither very leftist nor very rightist groups. Democracy should not be imposed from the outside, not from the West, because there will be a very strong reaction against it. To make it neutral, [there should not be] political influence...
...ancient enemy Japan on the other? The ownership of the potentially oil-rich islands (called Diaoyu by the Chinese and Senkaku by the Japanese) has ignited a grass-roots movement in capitalist Hong Kong, communist China, and among pro-unification forces in Taiwan. This territoriality has been matched by rightist indignation in Japan, which has not fought a war since 1945 but which sent its coast guard to the islands last week to turn away two groups of Chinese protesters intent on reaching the disputed specks. Last week the Chinese got their first martyr--a Hong Kong activist who drowned...
...unreviewed. There is nothing Irving can tell us about the malevolent Dr. Goebbels that we are not already painfully aware of. Whitewashing Adolf Hitler has been Irving's thing for years. Rather than enlighten people, as befits a historian, Irving has caused almost irreparable harm by giving the extreme-rightist, renascent Nazi and anti-Semitic movements a splendid tool to bolster their hatreds. HARRY CONWAY Middlebury, Vermont...
...election, but the mess in Lebanon has raised doubts on all sides. Is Assad really interested in a peace agreement? If so, shouldn't he being keeping Lebanon quiet to avoid causing problems for Peres, who is more interested in peace treaties than opposition candidate Benjamin Netanyahu and his rightist Likud? Does this outbreak mean, as Israeli Cabinet minister Yossi Beilin suggested in Washington last week, that Assad is not really committed to a negotiated agreement...
SENTENCED. YIGAL AMIR, 25; to life imprisonment; for the assassination of Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin; in Tel Aviv. The Jewish ultra-rightist brought new depths of meaning to the word unrepentant, grinning and yawning through a trial in which he freely admitted he shot Rabin to derail peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Amir's fellow extremists are taunting Rabin's successor, Shimon Peres, by chanting Amir's name...