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...shock to all of us," senior captain Sara Simmons said. "If we didn't win, we certainly didn't think we'd be that far off. When the race was over, we were all dumbfounded...
...spread quickly last week that the Tutsi-dominated army was about to attack Kamenge and seven major refugee camps that provide shelter to 200,000 Hutu from Rwanda. Tutsi paramilitary groups may have spread the rumors themselves to help speed their segregation plan. Everyone in Burundi is still in shock after the massacres in Rwanda last year, in which more than 500,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsi, were slaughtered...
...kind of ridiculous," sophomore attacker Liz Schoyer said. "I guess we're all sort of in shock...
...Personally, I could never get over the shock," he says now, even though he still feels the fight against "subversives'' was for a righteous cause. His first death flight so disturbed Scilingo that he went to a navy chaplain: "He told me that it was a Christian death because they did not suffer, that it was necessary to eliminate them." The Roman Catholic Church, long criticized for tolerating the military, responded last week with a veiled mea culpa chastising priests who may have condoned the "dirty war." But human-rights activists still called upon the church to acknowledge openly...
...Jenny Jones show, Scott Amedure, 32, was shot to death in front of his trailer at a mobile-home park in Michigan. His alleged killer is John Schmitz, who had appeared on the same Jones segment. Schmitz was told he would be confronted by a "secret admirer"; the shock of discovering that the person who had a crush on him was a man, Schmitz told police later, had "eaten away" at him. The show's producers insist that Schmitz was informed his admirer could be a man or a woman. Jones, in a statement before a taping of her show...