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...town of Arcata (pop. 16,000), Calif., has gone further, passing an ordinance that requires city officials to decline to assist in investigations carried out under the powers of the act. David Meserve, the city council member who drafted the ordinance, says it was a pre-emptive strike in case the feds, using the Patriot Act as their legal authority, ever ask local police to serve a search warrant or order town record keepers to hand over tax records. "My oath of office is to uphold the Constitution," says Meserve. "The Patriot Act is unconstitutional...
...Minister's killers had grand plans of their own. These plans, as described to TIME by police officials wrapping up their investigation into the plot, only began with the March 12 assassination. After the hit, the conspirators decided they would lie low while the government teetered. Then they would strike again--first at a Foreign Minister, then at two Djindjic aides. As panic spread, a special unit of the state security forces known as the Red Berets--some of whose commanders carried out the assassination--would step forward as guardian of the peace. The government would be forced to step...
That much was definitely true Sunday, as Ronz peaked with a seventh-inning fireworks display, striking out the side to close out the game. Two of those outs came on called third strikes, no small feat given the miniscule and inconsistent strike zone in effect most...
...Rumsfeld's declaration reflects a shift in the orientation of U.S. operations away from large-scale sweeps - such as Operation Valiant Strike, which saw some 1,000 U.S. soldiers trawl through southeastern Afghanistan in March - that are designed to root out Taliban and al-Qaeda diehards. Such operations haven't proved particularly effective in eliminating the small, mobile enemy formations that continue to operate throughout eastern and southern Afghanistan, across the border in Pakistan's tribal areas (where the local elected leadership is openly pro-Taliban) and in the Taliban's Pashtun heartland...
...China?the weak link in any anti-Kim lynch mob?the talks were especially arresting. Chinese officials have long opined that North Korea may not actually have nukes. That's now a harder pose to strike. Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, according to news reports, was "appalled" by North Korea's performance, and China was said to be anxious about the possibility of "war on our border...