Anwar

FEW PEOPLE in Malaysia believe that Anwar Ibrahim committed the crime for which he was sentenced to nine years in prison. Few people outside the country believe it, either. More folks credit Mr. Anwar's accusation that Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad had him framed and ordered a sentence that, with additional ineligibility for office, takes Mr. Anwar out of politics for life. Unless, of course, the verdict is overturned, presumably after the quirky and autocratic Mr. Mahathir, 74 and in unchallenged power for 19 years, has departed.

He pulled on a Terps visor, to the crowd's delight. He rubbed noses with Gov. Martin O'Malley. And the Dalai Lama was met Tuesday with rounds of applause from a crowd of 15,000 at the University of Maryland, College Park's Comcast Center. "Sit down," the 78-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader said in a firm but friendly voice when he approached the podium and the crowd rose to its feet. "No formality! We are [the] same. … The way we are born, the way we die: no formality. " Clad in red robes and his trademark spectacles, the Dalai Lama appeared at the university to give an address on peace, compassion and fellowship as part of the Anwar Sadat Lecture Series.

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Regarding the question posed by your editorial "A legitimate target?" (Oct. 3), my answer is an emphatic "Yes!" In the current global war against terrorism, when an American citizen such as radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was living in Yemen before being killed by a C.I.A. drone, defects and turns traitor to his country while openly supporting our enemies in al-Qaida, he becomes in my opinion a legitimate target for the U.S. military - and more power to them. Quinton D. Thompson, Towson

IF YOUR political foe has dangerous views and more dangerous popularity, get him for sexual deviancy. It's been done.Mahathir Mohamad, 73, has for 18 years been prime minister and boss of Malaysia, which is a federal parliamentary democracy with an autocratic atmosphere. Anwar Ibrahim, 51, was his protege, finance minister, deputy prime minister and heir apparent.In the economic meltdown of 1997 and '98, based on reckless bank loans to a commercial real estate bubble that Mr. Mahathir created, the prime minister took strong action.

On May 16, 2008, DARIK ANWAR LEIGH. On Thursday Mr. Leigh will be on view at the Highway Holyness Church, 511 Edmond St., Aberdeen, MD. at 10am. Family will receive friends 11am. Funeral Services 11:30am. Professional Services entrusted to the William C. Brown Community Funeral Home, Harford, P.A., 321 S. Philadelphia Blvd., Aberdeen, MD.

ASADABAD, Afghanistan - Telephone and power lines haven't reached the villages clinging to the craggy mountainsides of Kunar province. Digital phones and computer chips are even further beyond the shepherds' reach. So when sophisticated bombs detonated by long-range cordless phones began blowing up under U.S. and Afghan military vehicles on mountain tracks, investigators knew they had to search elsewhere for the masterminds. Afghan officials immediately focused on nearby Pakistan and its military, whose Inter-Services Intelligence agency helped create the Taliban in the early 1990s and provided training and equipment to help the Muslim extremists win control over most of the country.

The new Michael J. Fox film "For Love or Money" asks th question: Which is more important? And it answers: Both of them. I like a movie that takes a stand.A true case of having the cake and eating the cake, the movie isn't so much a comedy as a not-so-bad moral dilemma that recalls some of the more cantankerous works of that most misanthropic of directors, the great Viennese-American cynic Billy Wilder.Specifically, it recalls Wilder's brilliant "The Apartment," in which a great man's gofer and his mistress, each beholden to him in smarmy ways, view each other from the compromised platform of their corrupted states, but fall in love anyway.

Mutwali Sharawi, a leading cleric in the Muslim world who was minister of religious endowments under Egyptian President Anwar el Sadat, died June 17 in Cairo.Lucia Valentini Terrani, 51, the Italian mezzo-soprano who was a leading performer of Gioacchino Rossini's works, died June 11 in Seattle of leukemia.Ernst Brugger, 84, a former Swiss president who reached a European free trade deal for his country, died Sunday in Gossau, Switzerland.Louise M. Davies, 98, whose name graces San Francisco's symphony hall, died Monday in Portola Valley, Calif.

PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad has ruled Malaysia so idiosyncratically for 18 years that it is easy to forget he is democratically elected. He remembers.Dr. Mahathir called a snap election for next month to capitalize on the apparent economic recovery brought by his policy of internal debt in defiance of the International Monetary Fund.It also comes when his popular opponent and former heir apparent, Anwar Ibrahim, remains a defendant in the longest-running sodomy trial in the history of scandal, and has been sentenced to six years for corruption based on efforts to beat the first rap. Few people in or out of Malaysia believe the proceedings honest.

EPHRAIM KATZIR, 93 Israel's fourth president Ephraim Katzir, Israel's fourth president and an internationally recognized biophysicist, died Saturday, several weeks after his 93rd birthday. Dr. Katzir's 1973-1978 tenure spanned two seminal events in Israeli history: the 1973 Mideast war and the visit of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem in 1977. He left the presidency after one term to return to scientific research. Born in Kiev in 1916, Dr. Katzir immigrated at age 6 with his family to British-ruled Palestine and studied biology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, receiving his Ph.D.

On May 16, 2008, DARIK ANWAR LEIGH. On Thursday Mr. Leigh will be on view at the Highway Holyness Church, 511 Edmond St., Aberdeen, MD. at 10am. Family will receive friends 11am. Funeral Services 11:30am. Professional Services entrusted to the William C. Brown Community Funeral Home, Harford, P.A., 321 S. Philadelphia Blvd., Aberdeen, MD.

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Walter Cronkite turns 90 years old today, and the renowned broadcaster has lost none of his lust for the news business. "I would like to think that I'm still quite capable of covering a story," he told the New York Daily News this week. After anchoring the CBS Evening News for nearly two decades, the man with the famous stentorian voice can now be heard introducing one of his successors, Katie Couric. Asked for his reaction when CBS News executives invited him to do the introduction, he replied without hesitation: "I would like to be doing the whole broadcast."

ASADABAD, Afghanistan - Telephone and power lines haven't reached the villages clinging to the craggy mountainsides of Kunar province. Digital phones and computer chips are even further beyond the shepherds' reach. So when sophisticated bombs detonated by long-range cordless phones began blowing up under U.S. and Afghan military vehicles on mountain tracks, investigators knew they had to search elsewhere for the masterminds. Afghan officials immediately focused on nearby Pakistan and its military, whose Inter-Services Intelligence agency helped create the Taliban in the early 1990s and provided training and equipment to help the Muslim extremists win control over most of the country.

More than 23 years ago, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt traveled to Jerusalem to negotiate with Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel. In 1979, the two leaders signed the Camp David accords under the auspices of President Jimmy Carter, making Egypt the first Arab country to recognize Israel and ending a 31-year war between the two countries. Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981 by Islamic extremists. Since then his widow, Jehan Sadat, has worked and lectured on behalf of peace and human rights.

Farouk smiles, spreads his arms wide and thanks "everyone for letting me come here."From a camp in Turkey, the Iraqi refugee tried for 18 months to get to "this beautiful green town.""He's been in Turkey and thinks the green is so beautiful," said Anwar. "I've been in Saudi Arabia for 18 months. Imagine how I feel."Farouk and Anwar are among 23 Iraqi refugees and former prisoners of war temporarily housed at the New Windsor Service Center."They have had nothing and lived in fear," said Mayor James C. Carlisle.

FEW PEOPLE in Malaysia believe that Anwar Ibrahim committed the crime for which he was sentenced to nine years in prison. Few people outside the country believe it, either. More folks credit Mr. Anwar's accusation that Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad had him framed and ordered a sentence that, with additional ineligibility for office, takes Mr. Anwar out of politics for life. Unless, of course, the verdict is overturned, presumably after the quirky and autocratic Mr. Mahathir, 74 and in unchallenged power for 19 years, has departed.

PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad has ruled Malaysia so idiosyncratically for 18 years that it is easy to forget he is democratically elected. He remembers.Dr. Mahathir called a snap election for next month to capitalize on the apparent economic recovery brought by his policy of internal debt in defiance of the International Monetary Fund.It also comes when his popular opponent and former heir apparent, Anwar Ibrahim, remains a defendant in the longest-running sodomy trial in the history of scandal, and has been sentenced to six years for corruption based on efforts to beat the first rap. Few people in or out of Malaysia believe the proceedings honest.