An Inclusive Litany

8/5/01

The London Times reports that, to help repay $5.5 billion in Soviet-era debt, the government of North Korea is sending thousands of slave laborers to work in closed logging camps in eastern Siberia.

And the London Telegraph reports that anarchists who had earlier disrupted free-trade meetings across the world from Seattle to Genoa are refusing to demonstrate at a summit in Shanghai, China, out of fear they might be imprisoned or shot.