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 Thursday, December 19, 2002
 Middle East Immigrants Rounded Up by Hundreds

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iranian and other Middle East citizens were in southern California jails on Wednesday after coming forward to comply with a new rule to register with immigration authorities only to wind up handcuffed and behind bars.

Shocked and frustrated Islamic and immigrant groups estimate that more than 500 people have been arrested in Los Angeles, neighboring Orange County and San Diego in the past three days under a new nationwide anti-terrorism program. Some unconfirmed reports put the figure as high as 1,000.


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 In the moments I can snatch to read, I have been making my way through Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia. Interspersed with charming, romanticized accounts of the Old World immigrants who have landed on Patagonia's shores are tantalizing vignettes of the parallel universes that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid may or may not have inhabited. A few facts have spawned many legends, and Cassidy and the Kid have a mythic quality in Chatwin's narrative.

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Free Speech -- Virtually (TechNews.com) "The same law that relates to publishing in the offline world, generally speaking, applies to material posted publicly on a Web log, legal and human resources experts said. Posting information or opinions on the Internet is not much different from publishing in a newspaper, and if the information is defamatory, compromises trade secrets, or violates copyright or trademark regulations, the publisher could face legal claims and monetary damages."

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