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...World Food Program. The hardest hit are poor black Zimbabweans, the very people Mugabe professes to be helping. The opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.) and U.N. insiders accuse Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front (Z.A.N.U.-P.F.) of using food as a political weapon--giving it to card-carrying Z.A.N.U.-P.F. supporters and denying it to M.D.C. members. "If you cannot prove you are a member of Z.A.N.U.-P.F., you are a second-class citizen," says M.D.C. spokesman Renson Gasela. The government denies this...
...recent reception in a supporter's house in Atlanta, the strategy backfired on campaigning Republican Representative BOB BARR of Georgia. A National Rifle Association board member and gun-safety advocate, Barr was inspecting a 1908-model Colt .38-cal. pistol with his friend, lobbyist Bruce Widener, when the weapon discharged. Nobody was hurt, but Representative John Linder, Barr's opponent in the Republican primary for the state's Seventh District, found plenty of ammunition. At his next appearance with Barr, he joked, "I'm going to wear a bulletproof vest." "It's certainly not a joking matter," Barr shot back...
...Democrats say economic anxiety will attract voters to their party on a host of issues, from health care to the environment. But they know from experience that none packs a wallop like Social Security. It could be their nuclear weapon in a year when Americans have seen their 401(k)s vaporize. So at each stop in Iowa, a state with plenty of seniors and perhaps the greatest concentration of hot congressional races, Gephardt lambasted Bush's plan to allow people to invest part of their Social Security taxes in the market. "Over my dead body will they be able...
...green light from Fox and Universal. But Martin Scorsese wants to direct Leonardo DiCaprio, hero of his upcoming Gangs of New York, in his own Alexander epic. An Oliver Stone-directed version of the tale is also on the table, potentially starring Colin Farrell. Luhrmann's secret weapon: Moroccan King Mohammed VI, who, Variety reports, will lend 1,500 soldiers to the film. If Luhrmann needs a break from filmmaking, he can invade Spain...
...Numbers 45 million people are using the Internet in China now?only the U.S. and Japan have more people online- according to a survey released by the Chinese government 3 years is how long it would take Iraq to develop a functional nuclear weapon from uranium it already possesses, a former Iraqi nuclear engineer told the U.S. Senate last week $355.4 billion has been allocated for U.S. defense in this year?s budget, a 10% increase over last year?s total 14 men could face the death penalty if convicted of involvement in the June gang rape of a woman...