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...ordeal began as she, her son Andrew, 5, and her husband Xue Donghua approached the Northwest Airlines counter at Beijing airport on Feb. 11 to return from a three-week vacation. Suddenly, some 15 plainclothes security agents appeared and separated the family. "We didn't even have a chance to look at each other," says Xue. The agents blindfolded Xue and drove him to a house where they interrogated him for 26 days. On March 8 they took him to Andrew, who, because of the abrupt and prolonged break, did not recognize him at first. "He was looking...
...ordeal began as she, her son Andrew, 5, and her husband Xue Donghua approached the Northwest Airlines counter at Beijing airport on Feb. 11 to return from a three-week vacation. Suddenly, some 15 plainclothes security agents appeared and separated the family. "We didn't even have a chance to look at each other," says Xue. The agents blindfolded Xue and drove him to a house where they interrogated him for 26 days. On March 8 they took him to Andrew, who, because of the abrupt and prolonged break, did not recognize him at first. "He was looking...
...peace talks appeared on the verge of a breakthrough last summer, the New York Times reported of 90 two- and three-week summer camp programs attended by 25,000 Palestinian teenagers on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. Run by aides of Yasir Arafat, it was not your usual camp. Campers are given "the chance to stage a mock kidnapping of an Israeli leader by masked Palestinian commandos, ending with the Israeli bodyguards sprawled dead on the ground," the Times reported. "There is the opportunity to excel in stripping and reassembling a real Kalashnikov rifle." No doubt...
Training is divided into two stages. The first three-week session gives religious education and basic knowledge of how to handle firearms. Once a volunteer has passed that course, which costs the organization about $330 per trainee, he is sent to a designated city or town, often near his birthplace, to work at the group's offices and become more involved with the organization...
...student trade, the government warns buyers to check references. Then, too, visitors must learn to dodge Quito's unforgiving drivers, leap on buses that rarely seem to stop and make do with unreliable heat and hot water. Waldemar Steuer, 59, a retired German mining engineer who took a three-week course this fall, found one solution for the 45[degrees]F nights: he slept in his suit with four blankets...