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Some of the newsmen have been held for as long as four years. During that time a number of investigations have been launched to find them. But Cambodia has been so torn by insurgency that it was nearly impossible to pursue leads. Even Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the deposed Cambodian ruler who is now living in exile in Peking and who is the insurgents' nominal head, has said that he can learn nothing about the missing journalists. The committee's announcement rekindled hope that the mystery surrounding the newsmen's fate may soon be resolved...
...clamp down on terrorist activities; for example, it would more than double the maximum sentence for extortion (to ten years). The code, which was approved at week's end, is an emotional issue among the already divided supporters of aging President Juan Perón, 78; they are torn between a concern for protecting civil rights and a recognition that terrorism is getting out of hand and must be stopped. The debates have already produced the first open rupture in Perón's coalition with the expulsion from the Justicialist Party of eight leftist Deputies for refusing...
...stripping has wreaked havoc on whole areas. In response to public outrage over the scarred and torn land. Congress seems to be close to passing a bill that would make strippers repair the ravaged earth after mining. Such reclamation works well in the rolling, well-watered countryside of Ohio and Pennsylvania, but is difficult in the arid West, and virtually impossible on the steep slopes of West Virginia and Kentucky. In the long run, however, only 5% of the U.S.'s immense reserves are strippable. The rest must be mined by men working in deep shafts...
...will do little to help those already exposed to the asbestos dust. Asbestosis and related cancers may not develop until 30 years after exposure to the particles, but once they do, they are painful and often fatal. "He hurt with every breath he took, because his lungs were torn and scarred on the inside from breathing asbestos fibers," said Mrs. Robert Thomas of her husband, who died five months...
Long the best-educated and most industrious of Nigeria's tribes, the Ibos have used their resources to rebuild their war-torn region instead of carrying on a vendetta. When the war ended, the defeated Biafran leader, Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu,* bitterly boasted that the Ibos would rebel again. He turned out to be wrong. Ibos these days rarely speak of Biafra or of secession. "We tried and lost," says an Ibo businessman in Ibadan. "That finishes it. From now on, we are all Nigerians...