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...amounts to a steady, relentless encirclement designed to convince Saddam--and his supporters inside Iraq--that forces opposed to him are closing in. But Saddam has not caved yet. Indeed, knowledgeable observers say that so far the pressure has just led Saddam to step up his efforts to contain unrest. "They know people are trying to make contacts outside," says the former U.S. government official. "The regime is being extremely vigilant." A senior British official concurs that Saddam's security apparatus remains impressive. "We really don't know how serious the [internal] opposition is," he says, "because if we knew...
...little action can go a long way concerning cases in Africa,” said HASA Co-President Uzodinma C. Iweala ’04. “A lot of people on campus didn’t know about Danga’s situation or the political unrest in Malawi. A lot of people don’t even know where Malawi...
...some of the blanks." - By Johanna McGeary. Reported by Elaine Shannon/ Washington NIGERIA beauty and the beasts Riots and killings spread across northern Nigeria last week in the run-up to Miss World 2002. The Dec. 7 pageant, which was moved from Abuja to London because of the unrest, had already attracted controversy because of a Nigerian Islamic court's recent decision to sentence an unmarried mother to death by stoning for adultery. Nigerian Muslims called the contest indecent and said it promoted promiscuity. When an article in local newspaper This Day suggested that the Prophet Muhammad would have chosen...
...basis of Tim Robbins’ 1999 film of the same name. Like its intriguing opening, the musical itself, which recounts the saving grace of union organizer Larry Foreman against the manipulative Mr. Mister and his corruptive influence over the people of Steeltown, reflects the anti-labor unrest of the New Deal and a distinctly 1930s theatrical sensibility. But the work’s deeply rooted historical relevance didn’t daunt Director Patrick W. Hosfield ’05, who will be bringing the show to the Loeb Ex this weekend. In fact, Hosfield and the rest...
...guarantee social and political stability during the opening of the congress." The leaked materials revealed that the Party Organization Department praised security chief Luo Gan for presiding over 15,000 executions a year in the past four years as part of the effort to keep the lid on social unrest...