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...neither group of kidnappers has yet released any videos or photos proving their captives are still living, usually a first step in negotiations over hostages. Paul Conneally, Deputy Head of Delegation in Israel for the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), says his organization is in touch with "those involved" in holding the soldiers, and was given assurances that all three are healthy and well-cared for. But he says, "We need proof of life...
...Ngugi wrote I Will Marry When I Want, a play that critiques Kenya's neocolonial society. After it was performed, the theater was burned to the ground and Ngugi thrown in jail. He was released a year later - thanks to Amnesty International - with a new novel, Devil on the Cross, written on prison toilet paper. While in England to launch the book in 1982, he heard rumors that he would be arrested again if he went back to Kenya. He and his family went into self-imposed exile, moving from England to the U.S. and finally settling in California...
...little train that couldn't." DAVID RUDDUCK, American Red Cross spokesman, on tropical storm Ernesto, which hit Florida with weaker-than-expected force last week...
...article about Islamic discontent being fomented in Britain [Aug. 21], Beena Faridi of the Islamic Human Rights Commission characterizes Israel's actions of self-defense as collective punishment of the Lebanese. Cross-border raids involving murder, kidnapping and indiscriminate rocket fire are clear violations of human rights and international law. Don't human rights apply to all? Perhaps it is too much to ask the commission to consider the responsibility of all nations not to harbor terrorists. PETER ROSENTHAL Charleston...
...Cross-cultural comparisons are odious, of course. The rioting French Muslims were largely poor, unemployed immigrants or the children of immigrants, familiar with anti-Arab stigma and no doubt aware that the number of fellow-believers in the French Assembly could be counted on one hand - with fingers left over. By contrast, the American Christians who responded "Christian first" are probably employed and ethnically unalienated (to put it politely). Far from being disenfranchised, they are an increasingly powerful voting bloc who - when they wanted to see their views better represented - elected and then re-elected a President...