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Toward the end of our conversation, she said that “before my husband left [to study labor unrest in northeast China] he told me, ‘The U.S. government will help me. I’m an American permanent resident.’” Yang has indeed received an outpouring of support from Congress and the Bush administration since his imprisonment became known. Yet he is still not a free...
...addition, there are signs of foreign involvement in the unrest. U.S. officials doubt that Iraqis by themselves had the know-how to pull off assaults like the car bombings. Moreover, a Pentagon intelligence officer in Iraq told TIME, "It is totally against the psychology of the Iraqi people" to become willing suicide bombers. In Washington's view, the troublemakers are foreign terrorists, either al-Qaeda operatives or returning members of the al-Qaeda--linked Iraqi group Ansar al-Islam. Many Iraqis blame the big hits on an influx of Arab Islamists bent on holy war. Observers say unknown numbers have...
...soon. Their president, elected by a razor thin margin, has resigned and flown to Miami. Democracy hangs by a thread. There are big issues at work there, fights at high levels over globalization and free market reforms. But if you want to understand Bolivia’s unrest, just look at the pictures...
...students were very active in community politics...It was a time of unrest, and the students did their job and they did it well,” Graham says...
...baptism by fire for Lewis Booth, 54, the former head of Mazda who took over at Ford of Europe in August. "The automotive market in Europe has deteriorated dramatically since only a year ago," he says. The risk for Ford is that if it can't get the Belgian unrest under control, it could spill over and impact its production elsewhere in Europe...