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...MIGUEL TORGA, 87, Portugal's most admired contemporary writer; in Coimbra. A practicing physician for most of his life despite his fame as a man of letters, Torga was a liberal socialist, atheist and nonconformist. He spent six months in the dungeons of Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar at the request of Francisco Franco, who was excoriated in Torga's A Criacao do Mundo (1939), which contained a description of post-civil war Spain. In 1941 Torga began his magnum opus Diario, 16 volumes of reflections on his life and times. ``I fought against age, I fought against men, I fought...
...every level of government. Immediately after the quake, Kobe authorities failed to cordon off main roads for official use, and the delay of police and fire vehicles undoubtedly raised the death toll. For nearly four hours, the Governor of Hyogo prefecture, which includes Kobe, neglected to make the necessary request for aid to the national armed forces, which would provide 16,000 rescuers by week's end. The national government could also have stepped in sooner to aid with coordination. Soldiers who did arrive were plagued by communications snafus: at midnight on Tuesday, one field commander was unable...
...military readiness will continue to erode seriously, unless Congress provides a quick $2.6 billion emergency cash infusion, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. John Shalikashvili told lawmakers today. Pre-empting President Clinton's formal request for the money next month as part of his 1996 budget, the nation?s top general painted a picture far worse than he did last fall, when costs from overseas deployments to Haiti and the Persian Gulf led to canceled training and sagging readiness in three of the Army's 12 divisions. Shalikashvili warned that if the new money doesn't arrive...
Harvard officials all deny it, and claim the request itself is rare...
...Nicole's narrative, which the defense belittled as the work of a woman marshaling her case in a divorce dispute. Though that went far to make the prosecution's presentation seem like a pitch to the headlines, Clark's team insists it was a response to Judge Ito's request that prosecutors identify evidence they wished him to rule on immediately...