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In detention, KSM denies that al Qaeda had any agents in Southern California.
The same newspaper reported the "disappointment and grave concern" expressed by South African President Nelson Mandela over the detention without charges on Christmas Day of the Zambian founder-president and independence hero, Kenneth Kaunda, by the current Zambian president, Frederick Chiluba, who claimed that Kaunda had been implicated in an attempted coup d'état last October.
A spate of explicit "parental responsibility" laws passed by states and communities over the last couple of years give judges the power to make parents pay for juvenile detention or undergo counseling with their kids.
Walker said anxiety had been increased by "a clumsy purge of the local media" that had involved the imposition Thursday of a 15 day detention order on the editor of the Arab nationalist weekly Al-Majd after it had published the first full account of the deposition of Hassan, the king's younger brother, as crown prince.
The Attorney General has certified that the interim rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities because it only affects the federal government operations regarding examination, detention, and removal of aliens from the United States.