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...severity of the sentence was in part a measure of the social harm Hofmann had caused. Salt Lake City had been thrown into a panic by the seemingly random nature of the bombings, and the Mormon Church had been rocked to its foundations by Hofmann's faked documents. Hofmann's most notorious forgery had been the so-called White Salamander letter, which he sold to Christensen and Gary Sheets in 1984 for $40,000. It alleged that Church Founder Joseph Smith had been led to the Mormon scriptures not by an angel, as Smith had maintained, but by a white...
...excitement generated by the Mendiola Bridge clash and the collapse of the truce talks nearly buried allegations of yet another conspiracy against Aquino. Though the President denied that such an effort had been under way, top-ranking military officers handed journalists a document prepared for Major General Rodolfo Canieso, the commanding general of the army, confirming that there had been new plotting. The report said the conspiracy had been hatched by five brigadier generals and a colonel who were "in league" with Marcos supporters and powerful businessmen "disgusted by the security situation." The report provided no explanation...
...Chinese abroad," who "welcome" Hu's resignation. Whatever the truth of that claim, the protest by the U.S.-based students clearly stung. Said China Scholar Anne Thurston: "It is always significant when anyone who is Chinese and who plans to go back to China puts his name on a document of protest." Declared a student from Shanghai at Columbia University: "Chinese students overseas are becoming an independent political influence in China's politics...
...graces of Screenwriter Robert Bolt. A year later, as the tall ships clogged New York harbor, Stone sat down and wrote Platoon. "Essentially what I wanted to say was, Remember. Just remember what that war was. Remember what war is. This is it. I wanted to make a document of this forgotten pocket of time. I felt Viet Nam was omitted from history books. Like a battle I fought in during the war: a lot of people got hurt that day, and it wasn't even listed as a battle by the Army, as if they didn't want...
Aquino may have more success with the constitution. The 118-page charter, written by an Aquino-appointed committee, calls for a referendum on renewing the leases of U.S. military bases, a cutback in presidential powers and the establishment of a two-chamber congress. Aquino says the document is "worthy of the great collective act that made it possible: the rising of the Filipino people to vindicate their voice...