March 29, 2005
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"Witness Against Va. Gang Members Heads to Court"
Updated: Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2005 - 6:23 AM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A key witness in the upcoming trial of four MS-13 gang members is heading to court today.
Joaquin Grande-Chavez had fled and was arrested by U.S. Marshals last week. The Washington Post reports Grande-Chavez is expected to testify against his brother at a trial which begins on April 11th.
Four gang members are charged in the slaying of another federal witness -- 17-year-old Brenda Paz.
The trouble with Grande-Chavez highlights the difficulty in getting witnesses to cooperate with prosecutors.
Gang members have been known to issue orders to kill such witnesses before they can testify.
Paz was a witness in another MS-13 case. Her body washed up on the banks of the Shenandoah River in 2003."
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"The U.N. thinks about tomorrow's cyberspace"
March 29, 2005, 4:00 AM PT
By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The International Telecommunication Union is one of the most venerable of bureaucracies. Created in 1865 to facilitate telegraph transmissions, its mandate has expanded to include radio and telephone communications.
But the ITU enjoys virtually no influence over the Internet. That remains the province of specialized organizations such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN; the Internet Engineering Task Force; the World Wide Web Consortium; and regional address registries.
The ITU, a United Nations agency, would like to change that. "The whole world is looking for a better solution for Internet governance, unwilling to maintain the current situation," Houlin Zhao, director of the ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, said last year. Zhao, a former government official in China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, has been in his current job since 1999."