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DIED. LESTER MADDOX, 87, flamboyant restaurant owner turned segregationist Georgia Governor; in Atlanta. Maddox, who as Governor was prone to stunts like riding on the hood of a car to announce a new stretch of highway, gained local notoriety by loudly refusing to serve three black Georgia Tech students in his Pickrick Restaurant in the wake of the newly signed Civil Rights Act--and by distributing ax handles to patrons as symbols of defiance. A frequent target of newspaper caricatures, the former soda jerk never apologized for his positions, saying in 2001, "I want my race preserved. I think forced...
...Nevertheless, ports around the globe are under U.S. pressure to tighten lax export controls that allow North Korea to source much of the high-tech machinery and parts it needs to build conventional arms?as well as weapons of mass destruction. Following revelations this year that some Japanese-based companies had exported items to the North that could have been used to build atom bombs, Japan has attempted to curtail some of its trade with the regime. On May 8, for example, Tokyo police raided a trading company called Meishin, which is run by members of Japan's North Korean...
...INDICATORS It's Your Own Fault The hopes of revenge-seeking tech investors were dashed when U.S. courts threw out two class actions against Merrill Lynch, dismissing claims that the investment bank's misleading research caused them to lose money...