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...action." On the eve of independence, as many as 20% of the rebellious colonies' 2.5 million people were African American. That figure rose to 40% in Virginia, the home of Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, who were slave owners all. Then again, so was Lord Dunmore, the last Royal Governor of Virginia and the man who first made the offer of freedom for military service. Schama's book, nuanced, fair-minded and beautifully written, does not pretend that the British, who oversaw their own brutal slave economy in the Caribbean, operated with clean hands. But for American slaves...
...king leaves, the army will be shattered.”Thapa said she would also like to see the king stay, not because he unites the military, but due to her sentiment for the monarchy.“Nepal is so culturally rich, and the royal family is symbolic to Nepal,” she said. “There is a lot of respect for the royal family among some Nepalis, and I want the king there.” The civil war between the Maoists and the royal army has gone on in Nepal for over a decade...
...deal with the Maoists, who seem to be the only ones unhappy that the protests have ended. Many believe that the Maoists, who are vehemently opposed to the King, would have loved nothing more than to see the pro-demoracy protestors smash through the police cordons and storm the royal palace. Rejecting the King's announcement, the leader of the Maoists, who uses the nom-de-guerre Prachanda (the fierce one), said that the political parties had committed an "historic blunder" by ending the protests. He also announced that the Maoists would immediately blockade Kathmandu and other major towns until...
...Businessman Tigi Sikele allegedly threw the first rock from a crowd of protestors outside Parliament House. "After that it just erupted," says Royal Solomon Islands Police spokesman Mick Spinks. "The whole crowd just started picking up rocks and stoning the police and the police cars." Tear gas was used as a last resort to allow Rini to escape to safety, Spinks says. When the officers retreated into the building, half the 1,000-strong mob stayed around Parliament and the other half headed for Chinatown, starting an arson and looting spree that continued for two days...
...DIED. Sir Jack Cater, 84, Hong Kong corruption-fighter widely credited with eliminating endemic graft in the then colony in the 1970s; on Britain's Channel Island of Guernsey. As head of the newly formed Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), the ex-Royal Air Force squadron leader cracked down on the city's notoriously crooked police force and inefficient bureaucracy. He was appointed Hong Kong's Chief Secretary in 1978 under Governor Murray MacLehose, and later became its Commissioner to London before retiring from government...