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Vietnamese Communist Regime Arrests Two American Activists
The foreign nationals' embassies and families were not notified of the arrests until international pressure was brought to bear on the Vietnamese government. The communist regime detained several democracy activists while preparing to distribute leaflets and others on accusations of "terrorist" activities, claiming they found a gun and ammunition in the luggage of a member while going through customs after deplaning in Ho Chi Minh City on November 23.
On November 17 and 23, 2007, Vietnamese security agents detained six pro-democracy activists including 3 members and supporters of the Viet Tan Party (VN Reform Party) and 3 other individuals in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon).
Those arrested and detained included: Viet Tan Party (Reform Party) members: Dr. Nguyen, Quoc Quan, an American citizen from California, Ms. More>>
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Former aide blames Bush for leak deceit
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame. "There was one problem. It was not true," McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. "I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself."
Bush's chief of staff at the time was Andrew Card.
The excerpt, posted on the Web site of publisher PublicAffairs, renews questions about what went on in the West Wing and how much Bush and Cheney knew about the leak. More>>
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Work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet revives long-neglected history
CLEVELAND, Miss. - Natasha Trethewey looks at a photograph and wonders what the camera didn't catch. She tries to visualize the split second of action that was omitted, intentionally or accidentally, by the way a person pointed the lens. Her poetry tries to reveal the action beyond the frame.
Trethewey, a creative writing professor at Emory University in Atlanta, has long been fascinated with historic erasure - the idea that certain people or events are forgotten because they've never been recorded.
Her book "Native Guard," which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, focuses on two disparate and long-overlooked topics. One is the history of the Louisiana Native Guard, a black Civil War regiment assigned to Ship Island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The other is the personal history of Trethewey's own mother, who was killed two decades ago by a stepfather Trethewey always feared. More>>
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