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...assault on the Gaza strip, carried out by land, sea and air forces, represented a drastic escalation of the ongoing unrest in the region. Israeli tanks and bulldozers entered Gaza and appeared to start building camps and fortifications in preparation for a prolonged occupation. Within a few hours of Secretary Powell’s stinging rebuke, however, Israeli forces were heading back across the border...
...Taiwan never developed much of an entitlement culture. But take away their Leon Lai downloads, and Taiwanese are ready to storm the barricades. "We cannot remember a time when the students of Taiwan were so united by a burning rage," head-scratched the Taipei Times. The source of this unrest: two weekends ago, authorities in southern Tainan busted into a university dorm room where students were burning bootleg CDs. The predawn sting yielded one guilty coed and 14 MP3-laden computers, which authorities said undermined intellectual property laws. Within days, students compiled a 3,000-signature petition and demonstrated before...
...refugees. At home, Milosevic’s regime bred widespread corruption, as an oligarchy of his closest allies became immensely rich at the expense of the state and the people. Meanwhile, during his 13-year rule, Milosevic clung to power by any means necessary: he rigged elections, crushed popular unrest and persecuted and killed independent journalists, opposition leaders and student activists. To finally unseat Milosevic in October of last year, the people of Yugoslavia had to take to the streets by the millions...
...Luken, who took office in 1999, and other city leaders cannot claim they have done everything possible to prevent the chaos. In October 1999, while activists warned of mounting unrest, state senators asked the police department to review its deadly-force policy. They never received a report. No officer has been fired following the 15 fatalities since 1995, although some investigations are ongoing. And the city has resisted attempts to change the insular, 1,020-person department's policy of refusing to hire chiefs from outside. "There has been a material distrust between the police and the black community, even...
Over the past week, Cincinnati has sustained more civil unrest than it has at any time since the rioting prompted by the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. We are saddened by the media’s disinterest, and we urge President George W. Bush to use his bully pulpit and seize this opportunity to bring these riots to national attention. Bush had expressed ardent verbal opposition to racial profiling throughout his campaign and asked the Attorney General for a report on the subject soon after taking office. We encourage Bush to continue with this process. The profound antagonism...