Unemployment Unrest Roils Dujiangyan China
AP reports in Dujiangyan protests by laid off workers escalating outside city offices. Former steel worker Wang Wanbing recounts police violence that spurred broader demonstrations across China as government restructures state industries. Officials warn unemployment risks social stability amid a banking crisis and slowing growth with up to 15 million urban jobless and millions more displaced.
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Dujiangyan
China
Wang Wanbing
Wang
Communist Party
People’s Daily
Guo Shuqing
The
State Commission For Economic Restructuring
Beijing
East Asia
Former president Kaunda detained in Zambia hunger strike
Kenneth Kaunda, 73, was jailed after a three hour standoff with paramilitary police at his Lusaka home. He began a 28 day hunger strike protesting detention without charges under a state of emergency invoked by President Chiluba following a failed Oct coup attempt and the end of Kaunda’s 27 year rule.
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Lusaka
Zambia
Kenneth Kaunda
Kaunda
Frederick Chiluba
Chiluba
Five Chechen journalists reported missing in Dagestan hostage claim
Five Chechen journalists and two drivers vanished while covering Chechen versus Russian fighting. A Dagestan group calling itself the People's Volunteer Corps reportedly said it was holding seven hostage, with Reuters correspondents among the missing.
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Moscow
Dagestan
Reuters
Arbi Zubairayev
NTV
Umar Magomadov
ORT
Aslambek Dadayev
WTN
Aukh Tasayev
Ayub Vedzizhev
People’s Volunteer Corps of
Russia
NTV Television
Itar-Tass
Historians fear computers will erode archival edge
The National Archives wrestles with preserving billions of computer generated records and the hidden details behind them. Historians like Joan Hoff fear marginalia and internal edits will vanish as government records shift to digital drafting. Public groups challenge Director Carlin’s 1995 disposal directive, arguing it erases fingerprints and context.
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Washington
Joan Hoff
Richard Nixon
National Archives
Nixon
Hoff
Republic
John Carlin
Kansas
Carlin
Public Citizen
American Historical Association
American Library Association
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Kamwala
Sacika Sitwala
United National Independence Party
David Bearman
Bearman
Pittsburgh
Archives and Museum Informatics
Prestige Designer
Prestige
Dover
Collins Rd
John Dulle
Skogman Realty
John D Skogman
Pat Murphy
Si Tal Oe
Tait TT
Tim Laas
Oria
Ree
Ars
Fale
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