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...Chinese authorities say they are dealing with the triad menace. Last month, police in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau conducted a week-long crackdown on gangs that resulted in more than 1,000 arrests; some 35,000 police took part in Guangdong alone. But many believe the crack-down was mainly cosmetic and will leave the criminal gangs largely unharmed...
...Council plans to introduce more targeted sanctions against Iraq this week. The measures would ease restrictions on civilian goods while retaining the military embargo against Saddam Hussein. Moscow's rejection of the new proposals followed a meeting of Russian oil and gas company executives, urging the Kremlin to block the U.N. plan. ISRAEL Testing Times During a peace mission to the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that both Israel and the Palestinian Authority had agreed to a new timetable for reducing conflict. A week-long cease-fire would be followed by a six-week cooling...
Students began their summer with a week-long seminar on the Harvard campus, where they heard from a “daily overload” of four or five speakers, many of whom spoke about their personal involvement in the Civil Rights movement, according to participant Najiba Akbar, a rising junior at Wellesley College...
Although careful to stress that the conversations were not "negotiations," administrators said yesterday's talks were aimed at getting the protesters out of the building and ending the "harmful" and "disruptive" week-long protest by members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), according to administrators...
...told his successor. It is hyper-nationalism and xenophobia that fuses regime and people, rich and poor, losers and winners in one Great National Whole. Jingoism is the traditional antidote against discontent and revolt, and the Chinese have been made to lap from this fount aplenty. Remember the week-long war of the aroused masses against the U.S. diplomatic compound in Beijing after the accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade...