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Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic by Bette Bao Lord. When Lord went to fetch her father's ashes from a Red Chinese prison, she was told that his ears had been torn off. It was all she had to hear to know that the official report of suicide was a lie. The author, wife of the former ambassador to China Winston Lord, confronts 40 years of cultural distortion in the People's Republic...
...nationwide economic slowdown has deeply cut into revenues from state corporate and income taxes while also leading to cautious consumer spending that reduces the take from sales taxes. Meanwhile, outlays have been rising sharply for bridge and highway maintenance, prison construction and new schoolrooms for the second wave of the baby boom. The stiffest increases have been in health-care costs. Medicaid spending by states rose 18.4% in fiscal 1990 alone. Thus many of them are struggling with the prospect of big budget cuts and higher taxes, or drawing on reserves. "It's going to be batten down the hatches...
...Cold Former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who is appealing a six-month prison sentence for his role in Iran-contra, is soliciting donations to help fight his "liberal accusers." He has attached to each letter a dead leaf symbolizing the "winter that . . . freezes my spirit and numbs my heart. As time slips away . . . I desperately need your...
Last week's drama began after several Herrera loyalists posing as journalists rented a helicopter, then forced the pilot at gunpoint to fly to the island of Naos off the Panamanian coast, where the colonel was being held in prison. Two guards led Herrera to the helicopter, and once on the mainland he went straight to police headquarters in Panama City. Joined by a force of about 100 men, Herrera issued 11 demands to improve the conditions of the National Police. During the night, a contingent of about 500 U.S. troops surrounded the building. Next morning, as Herrera stepped...
Aware of Winnie Mandela's erratic behavior in recent years, many South Africans were guessing that the once-divorced Nelson might give his wife the shove following his release from prison. Not so. With Winnie facing trial in February on kidnapping and assault charges, Nelson is now springing to her defense. The government has subjected her to a "great deal of persecution," he says, adding that the press found her guilty before she appears in court. "I was unable to give her protection when I was in prison," he explains. "((But)) I am now here." Should the verdict go against...