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...accused of leading antigovernment protests in the Central Highlands were given prison sentences of up to 12 years. Analysts say Manh either ordered or allowed the crackdown to consolidate his power base and to appease party hard-liners. "Every Secretary-General has to concede that ground," says Vietnam expert Carlyle Thayer, a professor at the Australian Defense Force Academy. Asked whether he envisions allowing alternate political parties?which are now illegal?Manh told TIME that communist rule "is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. We never think about any opposition parties...
...still night in Kabul, two weeks ago, Marine guards in full combat gear at the U.S. embassy were startled by the whoosh of a fireball exploding underneath wintry trees at the far end of the diplomatic compound. The resident bomb-disposal expert decided to wait until dawn before venturing out of the fortified embassy to investigate. That's what makes him an expert. The explosion was only a decoy. The real killer was a land mine that was invisible in the dark but was spotted in the daylight half buried. Says Corporal Matthew Roberson of the Marine antiterrorist unit...
...write to lawmakers. "Support your government and your military," he urged, "especially when the bodies start coming home." That was an extraordinary plea from a man heading into harm's way: Don't fail us; don't let us die in vain. Had he heard too often the expert condescension, that Americans only support wars that are quick and easy to win? There is no way to prove who is right until America is more sorely tested: Do we provide every lost soldier an honor guard through every living room only because there are so few of them...
Back in the U.S., police and prosecutors suffered a rude jolt from a court ruling that threw doubt on the validity of even the most sophisticated fingerprint analysis. Various defense lawyers had attempted for three years to get fingerprint analysis held to a rigorous standard for expert testimony set by a 1993 Supreme Court decision. Print-matching standards vary widely, the lawyers argued, and have never been scientifically proved. A Philadelphia judge finally agreed, and his ruling, while not binding in other jurisdictions, is expected to make it more difficult to use fingerprint evidence to prove guilt in court...
...After Sept. 11, police say, all those plans were put into high gear. Two foreigners?one an Arab al-Qaeda member and the other an alleged bomb expert from the Philippine Moro Islamic Liberation Front?arrived in Singapore in September or October to direct the preparations. The two men, known as Sammy and Mike, told their local contacts they needed 21 tons of ammonium nitrate and warehouse space for the construction of several truck bombs. One of the arrested Singaporeans allegedly attempted to buy 17 tons of ammonium nitrate. (The group supposedly already had four tons stored away across...