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...their usual ruthless efficiency. By the night of Aug. 29, the rebels had shot dead a colonel on the doorstep of his Kathmandu home, gunned down a former government minister, firebombed the ancestral country mansion of the Finance Minister, robbed two banks and announced a three-day nationwide general strike. Some of these attacks bore a strong flavor of retribution. Fifty-two-year-old Kiran Basnet, the colonel shot in the chest and head outside his home, had been earmarked to take charge of the army's anti-Maoist battalion. Ex-Home Minister Devendra Raj Kandel, shot and wounded last...
...message was clear. After years in the hills, the rebels are now operating inside Kathmandu and are able to strike at anyone, anytime, anywhere. Middle-ranking rebel commanders tell TIME they have a division of several thousand men in the Langtang mountains north of Kathmandu, which would give them a stranglehold on one of the capital's two road links to the outside world. They say they are now embarked on the final phase of Mao's revolutionary timetable: eliminating all enemies of the revolution, bringing a terrorized capital to its knees and, eventually, overrunning the city and seizing power...
...devout Baptist, the verdict was a dissatisfying conclusion—or disappointing twist—to a five-month ordeal that has been marked by prayer with his family, a month-long hunger strike and the study of several languages...
...HAVEN—As college students begin their first full week of classes at Yale University today, a major strike of thousands of the university’s employees drags into its 13th...
...There is little justification for the partisan debate over whether there was sufficient evidence to go to war with Iraq. The preemptive strike was clearly in the U.S.'s national interest. It was an aggressive warning to terrorist-sponsoring states?especially Iran, Syria and North Korea?that there will be severe consequences for their dangerous behavior. The U.S. also provided enhanced protection to Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East, and sent a strong message to Syria and the Palestinians that there is no alternative to peace. The U.S. assured itself of a favorable position on the avail...