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Spread throughout the jungles that straddle Burma and Thailand, the rebels have settled into a life of well-ordered predictability. They subsist on teak logging and farming, attend church, send their children to school and adhere to a strict penal code (adultery carries the death penalty). Though there is no electricity at Manerplaw headquarters, a generator supplies power for that most prized necessity, a VCR. The leaders tend to be melancholy idealists, sad-eyed dreamers who pass evenings drafting and redrafting a Karen constitution for use in the improbable event that independence will be achieved. Gentle in gesture and speech...
...contrasts sharply with Helms' adamant antiabortion position. A Mason-Dixon poll shows that he leads Helms 44% to 43% with 13% undecided. Yet the same poll at a similar stage in 1984 had former Governor Jim Hunt ahead of Helms by 15 percentage points -- and he lost by 4. Though prominent Democrats like Sanford have pledged to go all out for Gantt, he has no chance of amassing the $17 million that Helms spent six years ago and that his campaign claims it can raise again, if needed. Gantt's place in history is assured -- but probably as the first...
Infantry evolved from the French word for child, reflecting the childlike state of compliance an officer instills in his troops. Soldiers are taught to obey unquestioningly. Children, less accustomed to independence than adults, are more tractable. And though a 13-year-old may not possess the strength of a soldier ten years his senior, this is the age of the AK-47 and the M-16, lightweight weapons a youngster can be taught to use as easily as an adult. Historian John Keegan calls the M-16 "the transistor radio of modern warfare" and argues that it has changed...
...larger number of Congressmen say they support any nation's right to self-determination. Their lofty concern apparently does not extend to Quebec, Slovakia, Palestine or other areas where minorities are seeking nationhood, perhaps because U.S. voter rolls do not include large numbers of French- Canadians, Slovaks or Palestinians. Though Lithuanian Americans have been highly vocal, they are small in number and there is no organized Lithuanian lobby in the U.S. But millions of Americans of East European ancestry nurse a long-standing and understandable grudge against Moscow...
...retired doctor was promoting a homemade, low-tech device as a solution to the right-to-die dilemma. In recent years the agonizing debate over the issue has revolved around new technologies that can keep dying or comatose patients alive long after the quality of their lives is nil. Though most physicians will respect a patient's right to refuse treatment, they will not actively help bring about death. "This case seems to take the responsibility away from human beings and to put it in the hands of a machine," says George Annas, professor of health law at the Boston...