Word: ruralization
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...quiet over Baghdad, but for the citizens of Arkansas the air war has already begun. Each night, TV viewers are bombarded by ads from the state's two Senate candidates, Democrat Mark Pryor and the incumbent, Republican Tim Hutchinson. Since airtime can be bought relatively cheaply in this poor, rural state, local folks are seeing more political ads this year than just about anyone elsewhere. Democrats rap Hutchinson on corporate responsibility. Republicans call Pryor a tax raiser. And on it goes. Each side is pouring millions into the race; President Bush has been here four times to bolster first-term...
...Sweet Home Alabama, a romantic comedy opening this week, Reese Witherspoon plays a Manhattan fashion designer who returns to her rural hometown to get a divorce from her high school sweetheart. She does not, however, fake her own death as a joke. She does not, while drunk in a honky-tonk, make a crude reference to oral sex. All that was cut because the studio was worried that the heroine of Sweet Home Alabama wouldn't seem sweet enough...
RELEASED. WAN YANHAI, 38, AIDS activist; by the Chinese government. One of the few voices publicizing China's aidsepidemic, Dr. Wan was imprisoned for posting on the Internet a classified government report about a rural AIDS outbreak...
...smaller and dual use," says Gary Samore, a weapons expert at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. "Any food-processing facility could be used for processing biological agents." Defectors have told Western officials that Saddam loads bioweapons into sealed wells drilled 60 ft. deep across the rural landscape and stocks chemical components in residential basements and palace bunkers. Labs for cooking up new toxins and germs are mounted on specially converted commercial trucks that cruise Iraqi highways to foil pursuers. "His weapons-of-mass-destruction capabilities are mobile," Rumsfeld said last week. "They can be hidden from inspectors...
...witnesses whom prosecutors plan to call in the newest phase of Milosevic's war-crimes trial - dealing with "ethnic cleansing" in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina - he is due to testify on Oct. 1. The accusations against Bobetko stem from a nine-day Croatian military operation in rural Krajina's "Medak pocket." From Sept. 9 to 17, 1993, according to the indictment, Croatian forces attacked and plundered Serb villages, unlawfully killing at least 100 Serbs while others were shot, stabbed, mutilated and otherwise inhumanely treated. As the army's most senior commander, Bobetko "played a central role" in the operation...