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DIED. MICHAEL ARIS, 53, husband of 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the leading dissident of Myanmar, formerly Burma; of prostate cancer; in Oxford. Myanmar's military junta refused to allow the dying Aris to visit his wife, whom he had not seen since 1995. Fearful the...
There were several reasons why the generals decided to take a gamble on Suu Kyi's release. First, the domestic political situation is more stable than it has been in the recent past: the government has concluded peace negotiations with 11 of the country's 12 major ethnic and tribal...
Prosecutors are frantically trying to limit the damage done to their case Thursday whenO.J. Simpsonmuttered and struggled to pull on the bloody gloves while jurors watched. Today the prosecution recalled Richard Rubin, former vice president of glovemaker Aris Isotoner as an expert witness on gloves. Rubin testified the tighter glove...
She is an improbable liberator for backward Burma, though perhaps born to the task. Her father was the national hero General Aung San, who led the struggle for independence from Britain only to be assassinated by a rival in July 1947, a mere six months before colonial rule ended. Until...
4) The milk trial. In 1974 Connally was indicted by a Watergate grand jury for accepting $10,000 from milk producers while he was Treasury Secretary in return for urging the President to increase price supports. At the trial, a 1971 White House tape was played in which Connally urged...