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Would being the first to set foot on Mars earn Americans more respect from other nations? Why not concentrate on making friends with earthlings before engaging the Martians? Junan Ecijan Melbourne, Australia...
...Okui was sent with his father and two brothers to the Manzanar War Relocation Center, a Japanese internment camp set on a windswept square-mile plot at the foot of California's Sierra Nevada, 220 miles north of Los Angeles. He spent three years there, living in tarpaper-covered barracks, where privacy could be eked out only by stringing sheets between bunks. Later, as a schoolteacher, he conducted tours of the site. But only now does Okui--and others who remain of the 120,000 ethnic Japanese, mostly American citizens, who were held at Manzanar and nine other internment camps...
BUDGET: $2 BILLION In October it became the third nation to send an astronaut into orbit. It wants to land an unmanned vehicle on the moon by 2010--five years before NASA next plans to set foot there...
...prisoner in cell 12 in Sulimaniyah's security jail lives in a four-by-six foot square, with no windows and a fluorescent light that is never switched off. But despite the tiny space, he harbors grand visions of a holy war against American occupiers...
...heavy blow to Ansar. With no base to call their own, ranking members lie low just over Iraq's eastern border in the Iranian town of Marivan. Iranians there do a busy trade producing fake identity cards for Ansar fighters for their return to Iraq across the 5,000-foot mountains. With overburdened Iraqi border patrols guarding a 1,000-mile frontier, Ansar's return is almost impossible to block, and Kurdish guards expect little help from Iranian officials in stopping the infiltration...