BBC:
Pakistan seizes critical magazine

The Pakistani authorities have seized 4,000 copies of The Economist magazine featuring a cover story criticising the government.

The lead story in the magazine's Asia edition is titled "The Rot in Pakistan" and focuses on the Pakistan Government's crack down on press freedom.

The copies were taken from Karachi airport before they could be distributed.

A spokesperson for The Economist in London said it had been given no reason for the magazines being blocked.

The Nawaz Sharif Government has come in for criticism at home and abroad, over its recent attacks on the press.

Opponents say that it is leading a harassment campaign against journalists and newspapers critical of its performance.

Two weeks ago, Pakistan accused the United States of meddling in its internal affairs, after the Americans had denounced the arrest of a senior journalist.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_

BBC:
Tourists' capsize 'nightmare'

More than 20 tourists and crew waited 24 hours to be rescued from shark-infested waters after their boat overturned in the South Pacific.

Ten Britons, along with passengers from New Zealand, Sweden, France, Israel and Canada, were forced to swim to safety or cling to the hull of the capsized boat overnight before being rescued on Tuesday.

The 27-foot launch, which is thought to have been overcrowded, sank in Bligh Water, off Fiji's main island of Viti Levu.

One of the passengers, New Zealander Olivia Moore,

said the boat began to crack up about an hour after leaving port on Monday.

She said: "There were a couple of non-swimmers on board and it was a nightmare."

Ms Moore said 16 passengers managed to swim to a coral outcrop and wait overnight to be rescued. The rest clung to the upturned boat.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid

THE TIMES:
Khrushchev's son to become a US citizen

THE son of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader who predicted that communism would "bury" America, is to become a US citizen.

Almost 40 years after his father hectored Richard Nixon in a kitchen and denounced an opponent as an "American stooge" while thumping his shoe on a desk at the UN, Sergei Khrushchev and his wife Valentina Golenko are to take the citizenship examination on June 23 and swear the oath of allegiance.

Mr Khrushchev, 63, a rocket engineer and computer scientist who once headed the Soviet Missile Design Bureau, is now a senior research scholar and lecturer at Brown University's Centre for Foreign Policy Development. He arrived at the university in the autumn of 1991 for a two-year exchange programme but liked it so much that he applied for permanent residence. He said at that time that it was not a defection from his homeland because "our countries are not enemies any longer. We are on the same side now."

Of his application for citizenship, he said: "I thought about this decision and I had the freedom to make this decision. I have been living here for seven years and working for Brown University and I am planning to live here longer. If I am living in the country, I think I have the obligation to be a citizen, not a foreigner."

The elder Khrushchev, who led the Soviet Union from 1958 until 1964 and died in 1971, was less at home with the American way of life. In 1959 he went with Nixon, then Vice-President, to examine a model American house on display in Moscow. Nixon tried to point out the advantages of free enterprise which made such a house available to the average worker. Khrushchev claimed that the house was a Taj Mahal beyond the means of all but the rich. He then launched into an onslaught on the modern appliances on display.

Seizing upon a device for squeezing lemon juice for tea, he scoffed: "What a silly thing for your people to exhibit in the Soviet Union, Mr Nixon. All you need for tea is a couple drops of lemon juice. I don't think this appliance of yours is an improvement in any way. In fact, you can squeeze a lemon faster by hand." The two men then began a heated debate on capitalism and socialism. Later Khrushchev had a sharp exchange with the then British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at a UN meeting and then took offence when the Philippines delegate to the UN accused the Soviet Union of pursuing imperialism in Eastern Europe. Taking off his shoe, Khrushchev started hammering it on a desk and calling his accuser "this jerk, this American stooge".

Sergei Khrushchev has published several books about his father and has often been asked to explain the "we will bury you" remark. "He was referring to a socialist centralised economic system, which he believed would prevail," he said.

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/Times/frontpage.html

USA TODAY:
U.S. approval for Kosovo effort slips

A new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll finds U.S. support for the air war against Yugoslavia slipping, and President Clinton's approval at a three-year low, even as NATO moves to dramatically increase "peacekeeping" troops in the region. By an overwhelming 82% to 15%, those polled would support a pause in the bombing. And support for military action in general has sunk to just below 50% for the first time. "A warning call for the administration," Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center says of the numbers.

http://www.usatoday.com/hlead.htm