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...mask in a Detroit apartment provided by controversial doctor. Kevorkian's second acquittal in two years saved him from possible sentences of up to four years on each of the two counts.China Threatens TaiwanTAIWAN: In a move calculated to increase tensions in the western Pacific, the Chinese military launched three M-9 ballistic missiles into waters near the ports of Kaohsiung and Keelung early Friday morning. The missiles were the first of a series of tests announced by the Chinese government on Tuesday, and are scheduled to continue until March 15th. Beijing called the launch simply routine, but the tests...
...stopped just short of declaring war on his party: "I would urge my critics and opponents to stick to issues, stick to ideas, stop the name calling because it is you who are risking the unity of this party, not I." He has promised in the past not to launch a third-party challenge; but if this race has proved anything, it's that there's a first time for everything...
...that time NASA will have plenty of other missions to manage. The next project in the Discovery series is the Mars Pathfinder, scheduled for launch next December, which will land on the Red Planet and send a robot rover off to explore. Then comes Lunar Prospector in 1997, designed to chart the mineral composition of Earth's nearest neighbor, and after that a mission to bring a chunk of comet back to Earth, slated for 1999. Each is supposed to cost a few hundred million dollars at most, and thanks to NEAR that goal, considered highly improbable when...
...hottest sites on the Web. E-mail messages flash in from more than 50 countries. Fan suggestions are routinely incorporated into the onscreen action. "It's the interaction that makes it work," says Russell Collins, president of Fattal & Collins, the California ad firm that funded the $100,000 launch of The Spot...
MIAMI: "The last time Miami exiles attempted to launch a flotilla towards Cuba," says TIME's Tamerlin Drummond, "a Cuban ship rammed the lead boat in the flotilla. Several people were injured." Disregarding past history, Brothers to the Rescue is planning a return to the same spot where two of its planes were gunned down by Cuban fighter jets last Saturday. Brothers founder Jose Basulto, who escaped Cuban jets in last Saturday's attack, says he is eager to go back to the area to say a prayer for his fallen comrades. Despite the volatility of the situation...