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ables across countries. The report also highlights six countries for which Vodafone was unable to disclose any statistics on warrants from the government or other requests: Romania, Qatar, Egypt, India, South Africa and Turkey.
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• BANGKOK (AP) -- Cheer up, Thailand. That's an order.
• The military junta that seized power here last month has no plans to restore civilian rule any time soon. But it has launched an official campaign to bring back something else it says this divided nation desperately needs -- happiness.
• The project has involved free concerts, free food, alluring female dancers in suggestive camouflage miniskirts, even the chance to pet horses trucked into downtown Bangkok with makeshift stables and bales of hay. The fair-like events are supposed to pave the way for reconciliation after a decade of political upheaval and coups.
• But critics point out the feel-good project is being carried out alongside an entirely different junta-led campaign -- an effort to stifle all opposition to the army's May 22 putsch, which deposed a government elected by a majority of Thai voters three years ago.
• "The very first question you have to ask is, who's happiness are they talking about?" said Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a Thai professor of Southeast Asian studies at Kyoto University who has refused to respond to a junta summons ordering him to return home and report to the army.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- So far, so smooth for California Chrome.
• It has been fairly clear sailing for the chestnut colt through the first two legs of the Triple Crown.
• He parlayed trouble-free trips in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness into victories, setting the stage for a possible Triple Crown sweep on Saturday in the Belmont Stakes. The 1 1/2-mile Belmont, known as "The Test of a Champion," is the longest of the three races in the series.
• And, in many respects, the cruelest.
• Only 11 horses have swept the three races, Affirmed the most recent in 1978.

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