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...unmoved by the prospect of spending his life in the tobacco fields, he left for Sampit in Borneo several years ago and found work as a driver. Last February, long simmering tensions between the Madurese and the native Dayaks erupted. The Dayaks, in hand-to-hand, town-to-town combat, embarked on a rampage intent on exterminating all things Madurese. The killings began on a Sunday, Ma'ruf remembers. Houses were burned. Madurese were murdered indiscriminately, often brutally. Ma'ruf abandoned his home and his car and fled with his family to a hastily erected refugee camp. As he left...
...Aviation Challenge, Huntsville, Ala., and Atwater, Calif. For ages 9 to 18; weeklong camps in aviation basics. Teens with the right stuff can progress to jet-fighter simulators and classes in air-combat techniques...
...original idea was intended to combat the lingering public sentiment that Bush isn't experienced or serious enough for the job. But the effect has often been to make the President appear removed from the people--more concerned with touting his tax cut to Congressmen than projecting the regular-guy image voters responded to during the campaign. Hughes is brewing a remedy. Beginning this week, when Bush attends an inner-city block party in Philadelphia on July 4--and continuing through meetings next week with families designed to show his concern for their health-care problems--Hughes will...
...founders of the award hope it will combat a growing opinion that newspapers do not treat the subjects of their stories fairly...
Among the forgotten remnants of America's rickety Cuba policy are the thousands of Cubans who served the U.S. during World War II. Since 1963, Cuban vets--who worked at the Navy's Guantanamo Bay base and in many cases saw combat--have been denied the pension benefits owed them under U.S. law. Washington has long maintained that the money would line Fidel Castro's pockets. But now at least 250 plaintiffs hope to have a class action accepted in federal court to obtain their money. Lawyers say that official Cuban pension files were destroyed by fire; the government claims...