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Despite pleas for clemency from the White House, Singapore not only appears determined to carry out its caning sentence on American teenager Michael Fay, but is planning the same punishment for another youth. A second American, who was arrested for vandalism along with Fay, is still on trial. Singapore's Senior Minister and predominant political personality, Lee Kuan Yew, 70, recently addressed this and other issues of U.S. policy with managing editor James R. Gaines, chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger, Southeast Asia bureau chief William Dowell and senior correspondent Sandra Burton. Excerpts...
...would have to be afflicted with multiple sensory deficits to miss his point. Urban America is in physical decline. Cities as seats of education and social stability have decayed. Relations among ethnic and racial groups may have been raw in the poor immigrant neighborhoods of Bellow's youth, but fractious communities still shared a common identity as Americans. No longer. "The slums, as a friend of mine once observed, were ruined," he writes with bitter humor...
Another brewing problem is the possibility that Mandela's estranged wife Winnie might get a minor Cabinet post. Though she was convicted in the kidnapping of a township youth who was later murdered, she scored an upset last year in winning election as head of the A.N.C. Women's League. This year the party put her high on its list for a parliamentary seat...
Bachrach says it is more important to focus onways of deterring crime. He supports increasingdrug and alcohol abuse programs and expandingfunding for the Department of Youth Services...
Declaring that there was "reason to believe he would engage in criminal activities" during his stay--by violating the country's hate-crime ;laws--the Canadian Department of Immigration barred Khalid Abdul Muhammad from entering Canada to deliver a speech to the Toronto-based Black Youth Congress...