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...connection between nests and violence continues to this day. The island of Koh Mak gets about $1.1 million in nest revenue every year, eight times more than the budget of some other Phatthalung subdistricts unblessed by nesting swiftlets. In 1997, the Thai government passed legislation to make the industry more transparent and ensure that government revenue from concessions is funneled back into local communities. But a string of unsolved murders on Koh Mak indicates hazardous aspects of the harvesting trade linger. Pradit Jariya, 35, has been administrative chief of the island for a year now. It's quite an achievement...
...almost irrelevant to Aceh's future and without anyone-Jakarta, the media, activists, aid workers, foreign governments-to bear witness, the military has been free to launch what many Acehnese feel is the endgame for their people. Part of this includes the replacement of the province's 114 subdistrict chiefs with retired soldiers, which would give the military a stranglehold over the province and allow the uninterrupted plunder of natural resources such as timber. It is a future the generals would wish upon other parts of resource-rich Indonesia-for example, restive Papua province-and one that appears inevitable considering...
Stationed in the Malakand subdistrict, Banuri found the lifestyle similar to what he had seen in westerns as a child. He recalls that he once mistook a film of the American west for the Pakistani frontier. The people have similar attitudes about survival, and they rely mainly on themselves--"We have a very individual culture. When you grow up you are told you must safeguard your own rights...
...those most directly involved, students and teachers, the prospect of renewed battles over the issue was hardly reassuring. "After a while, our kids are political pawns," lamented Yvonne Ewell, assistant superintendent of the predominantly black Oak Cliff subdistrict: "I just care about educating our students...
...them. Last week the court let stand the 1955 conviction of Junius Irving Scales, onetime Communist chief in the Carolinas, who had been sentenced to six years in prison. It also set aside the five-year sentence of John Francis Noto, chairman of the western New York subdistrict of the party. There was a fine distinction. Scales had been convicted of actively intending to bring off a revolution; but the Government had not proved that Noto was actually inciting anyone to violent action...
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