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...role as a reformer and insists that Deng - who forced Hu Yaobang from power in 1987 for his sympathetic handling of democracy advocates' protests in December of 1986 - was nothing more than a political conservative who monopolized power and treated the National People's Congress as a rubber stamp body. Just as Hu started his social reforms by coming to terms with all the injustices and wrongs of the Cultural Revolution, Hu Jiwei writes that today's leaders in Beijing need to rectify a host of wrongs that Deng committed - namely, the lack of progress on political reforms...
...remain in Mosul past June, despite high levels of violence there over the past year. Insurgents have kept up an aggressive presence in Mosul, Iraq's third largest city, despite repeated campaigns by U.S. and Iraqi security forces to rout them. Iraqi security forces most likely cannot successfully stamp out the insurgent networks in Mosul by themselves. But the Iraqi government may not be so keen to ask U.S. forces to stay. "It depends on the situation at the time," said Tahseen al-Shekhli, a spokesman for the Iraqi government. "If there is something out of control, we will...
...operations," Rear Admiral Victor Guillory, director of the Navy's surface-warfare division, told a House panel on March 10. But at 400 feet in length and $500 million each - and with initial production plagued by problems - the Navy is not going to be able to buy enough to stamp out piracy anytime soon...
SIMPSONS get postage stamp...
...also give the nod to a military death squad that massacred civilians during his rule. As a result, Fujimori was convicted on Tuesday of being the "indirect perpetrator" of at least 25 murders and two kidnappings in the early 1990s, at the start of his ultimately successful campaign to stamp out Tupac Amaru and the even more bloodthirsty Maoist rebels known as Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path. The verdict makes Fujimori, 70, the first democratically elected head of state to be tried and convicted on human rights abuse charges in his own country. He was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment...