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...sales rep stationed at the front door of the Kroger supermarket in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, knew a family of attractive marks when she saw one. Here was a nice-looking young couple with their cooing newborn in the shopping cart: perfect targets for a high-speed spiel. "Have you had a family portrait yet? We're running a special deal this week, one 10 by 13-inch portrait, a $60 value, right now for just $8. Oh, the baby's so cute. Can I sign...
...ACQUITTED. SU CHIEN-HO, 30, LIU PING-LANG, 30, and chuang lin-hsun, 30, known as the "Hsichih trio," who were convicted in 1991 of a high-profile murder of a Taiwanese couple in the Taipei suburb of Hsichih, and who served 12 years on death row; by a retrial judge citing insufficient evidence; in Taipei. The case had been taken up by human-rights activists who said the three men's confessions had been coerced through torture...
...seemed a straightforward operation. Immigration officials and police, unarmed as usual in Britain, broke into an apartment in a run-down north Manchester suburb last Tuesday, seeking a 23-year-old Algerian who had gone missing after his bid for asylum was rejected. He was to be detained, pending deportation, under anti-terrorism legislation. Instead of one man inside the apartment, however, the police found three, all of them North African. The detectives immediately checked the identities of the other two men with Scotland Yard, which was investigating the discovery of traces of the deadly poison ricin in a north...
...arms inspectors in their Toyota Land Cruisers paid a visit last week to a company called al-Nidaa in the Baghdad suburb of Zafaraniyah. This was the place where Iraq once manufactured its modified Scud missile, al-Hussein, one of the most potent tools in its arsenal. The weapon has been forbidden to Baghdad since the 1991 Gulf War cease-fire, and the Iraqis claim these days that al-Nidaa makes only metal molds and tools. But the inspectors, armed with 1,240 unrevealing pages on missile programs that were part of Baghdad's recent accounting to the U.N., made...
Monteiro, who hails from the suburb of Norman, Mass., is a psychology concentrator who says he has always been intrigued by issues of fairness in law and politics...