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BEIJING--China denounced the seven leading industrialized nations yesterday for their "gross interference" in calling on Chinese authorities to stop the crackdown on participants in pro-democracy protests...
Instead, the government made clear it plans to continue rounding up anyone involved in the seven weeks of protests for freedom, democratic reform and cleaner government. A report in the Communist Party newspaper, the People's Daily, said those who surrender will get lenient treatment...
...strongly worded message to the Group of Seven echoed earlier Chinese reaction to sanctions individually imposed by some of the seven, including the United States and France, after the Chinese army crushed the protests June...
Alarm has been growing for more than a decade. Scores of lawsuits have been filed by residents of Texas, New York, California and Louisiana, forcing utilities to delay, reroute and sometimes abandon construction of power lines. Seven states have set limits for the strength of electric fields created along power-line paths; Florida has also adopted a standard for magnetic fields. Fremont, Calif., requires that potential buyers of new homes adjacent to overhead lines be warned of possible health risks. Last month in Florida a judge declared that pupils of Sandpiper Shores Elementary School near Boca Raton could not play...
...marble-and-mahogany chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court seems too stately a place for dropping a political bombshell. Yet last week, while opposing bands of demonstrators taunted each other with noisy chants and protest signs on the plaza in front of the court, that is precisely what happened. Seven of the nine Justices emerged from behind the red velvet curtain and took their seats. In the hushed chamber, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist read in his singsong, quivering voice excerpts of the long-awaited decision of the divided court in the case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. Before...