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...April-Agro controversy has also been clouded with a nativist suspicion of Demel and his new methods. Claridad, official newspaper of the pro-independence Puerto Rican Socialist Party, refers to Demel as the "Jew Cuban," and local planters refer to April-Agro as "the Israelis." The English-language San Juan Star, in urging the Governor to delay action against the experimental farm, pointed to "a deep-seated resentment against 'outside' farmers changing the way agriculture has been traditionally carried out." Hernández-Colón has stayed out of the dispute while his agriculture secretary attempts to negotiate a "painless" takeover...
...problems." He means temptation - and bigotry. The temptation is sex and the way the culture outside the box is saturated with it. "That's why Islam has repentance," he says with a laugh. The bigotry is from fellow American citizens who the students believe are watching them with suspicion. Since 9/11, "there's been extra pressure on them," says Hanan Abdallah, their assistant principal. "Anytime they're out, whatever they say counts 110%. They are young adults at an earlier...
...Mississippi River, the only trace of Don C. Wiley was his rental car abandoned on the side of a bridge. Wiley, Loeb professor of biochemistry and biophysics, went missing on Nov. 16, 2001, while in Memphis, Tenn., for a scientific conference. The FBI looked into the case on the suspicion that his work might be of interest to terrorists...
...News trickled out last week that Ching Cheong, the Hong Kong-based chief China correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times, had been detained in late April on suspicion of espionage. Three days later, word spread that Lu Jianhua, a sociologist at the government-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing, and another CASS administrator, Chen Hui, had been rounded up around the same time for allegedly leaking state secrets?a charge that, like espionage, can carry the death penalty. But in an open letter to Hong Kong newspapers last Friday, Ching's wife, Mary Lau, claimed that...
...political manipulation" by the E.U. He was much more blunt in April. Outside influences "are trying to change our national culture by imposing foreign values, fashion and language that do not match Turkish customs and traditions," he said. Suspicion of the E.U. has been increasing in the six months since Brussels agreed to open accession talks with the largely Muslim country. A poll published last week found support for joining the E.U. among Turks had fallen 12% in that period, to 63%. "Turks feel at the mercy of forces they don't understand," says Hakan Altinay, director of the Open...