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/begin my translationA Series of Top Officials in Tibet Struck down by Altitude Sickness, Returning to Beijing [Yonhap News 2005-10-03 14:46] (Hong Kong) By Chung Juho -- Top Han Chinese officials in Tibet were struck down by its local endemic, and being sent back to Beijing. Yang Chuan-tang, the Party Secretary of Tibet Autonomous District, went into a coma due to heart and brain blood vessel illness, and was shipped back to Beijing in an emergency airlift, according to Oct. 3rd edition of Hong Kong's Ming-bao. Overworked Secretary Yang collapsed in Oct. 1 while preparing for the 40th Anniversary of Tibet Autonomous...

French consulate in Paris working round the clock to ease admission for dozens of Iraq escapees

DEBKAfiles exclusive intellignece sources report that Saddam Hussein, his sons and top Iraqi leadership members may no longer be in Baghdad.It is not clear whether the rulers have gone into hiding elsewhere in the country, the Middle East or outside the region.Some Iraqi top officials have been seen sighted in other Middle Eastern and European CapitalsThe disappearance of Saddam and his following would account for the feeble resistance Iraq Special Republican Guard Divisions put up to coalition advance on the capital within the last 48 hours.