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...former Ambassador to the U.N. and former Congressman from Houston, unfolds himself from his seat and steps down onto the tarmac. No cheering throngs greet him. Unperturbed, he shakes hands with his few supporters. Then Bush climbs into a large black Cadillac owned by Lee Holt, Spencer's premier car dealer. Holt and Bush cruise off into the failing light, down arrow-straight roads, past cornfields dusted with the season's first snow...
...Khmer Rouge soldiers, and the civilians who were forced to follow them into hideouts in border areas under pressure by the Vietnamese army that occupied Cambodia last January. These refugees, about 30,000 in all, are dramatic evidence of the human damage wrought by the murderous regime of ousted Premier...
...barrier, screaming obscenities into whirring television cameras. Ohira himself blocked Diet votes on the premiership three times, holding out to retain his power while the Diet remained paralyzed. After futile attempts at compromise with Fukuda, Ohira retained his seat by a mere 17 votes in the first runoff premier election in Japan's short parliamentary history...
Injuries to last year's standouts Adele Joel, a premier breaststroker, and Maura Costin, may also hurt the squad. Walsh said she hopes for Joel's return after Christmas, but Costin has left the team because of shoulder problems...
...some sacrifices-of blood, even of our lives. But we are ready to sacrifice for the sake of changing China." April Fifth Forum, which Liu had helped found, was named for the 1976 demonstration in Peking's Tiananmen Square when hundreds of people seeking to honor the late Premier Chou En-lai were arrested and beaten by police. More moderate than the editors of some other underground journals, Liu and his colleagues believed that socialism is the appropriate system for China, but argue that Peking's brand of Marxism is not "true socialism...