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...authorities in Bangkok boosted economic aid to the south, gave it some autonomy and pardoned many insurgents. And though there had been a steadily rising tide of killings and attacks on security posts in the south in recent years, most officials and analysts dismissed the unrest as sporadic and low-level, blaming bandits as much as they did separatists?until last week's bloodbath. Now the scale and ferocity of the April 28 violence is forcing Thais to confront the reality that Islamic militancy in the south has escalated into a national crisis. The morning after the killings, "Thais woke...
...good use of quotation: The Smiths’ lyrics to “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out” get reignited by way of Royksopp’s hypnotic “Poor Leno.” Like his collaborative electronic album from last year, Unrest, this record isn’t perfect, but it’s a revelrous education in 21st century dance music, capable of getting even the less coordinated of us to put it to good...
...fury and chaos of the past three weeks in Iraq have had a profoundly sobering effect on Washington. With Shi'ite unrest spreading in the southern part of the country and fierce military battles erupting in Fallujah, the city west of Baghdad that has become the core of Sunni resistance, the Administration risked completely losing control in Iraq. The U.S.'s certitude that it could pacify Iraq on its own has been replaced with a new deference to the U.N., hopeful talk about a fresh Security Council resolution that would ratify the U.N.'s political role in Iraq and frank...
...their own internal reconstruction. "If Europe is bolshevized." Professor Cross said, "it won't be due to the Soviets, but to mistakes of our own." These "mistakes," he explained, would be the failure to establish a basis of permanent peace, leaving the nations of the continent open to unrest...
...Faunce, who was a Baptist minister before he became President of Brown, spoke of the students need for spiritual guidance. He said that the change in standards of belief, the spiritual unrest of the age, is particularly hard on young people, and that he has known more than one case of breakdown from a warring of old beliefs against new teachings; an inability to think things through and arrive at an acceptable solution. Brown is calling a new spiritual counselor in the person of the Rev. O. T. Gilmore...