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Elusive and mysterious throughout his life, Pol Pot slipped just as stealthily into death, guarding his secrets to the end. The teenage guerrillas of the Khmer Rouge who had kept him under "house arrest" since a show trial last year blandly informed reporters that one of the world's most notorious mass murderers had died peacefully Wednesday night of a heart attack, discovered when his wife came to tuck in his mosquito...
...colleagues are hopeful but uncertain. "Robert is very ambitious," says director James Toback, who cast Downey in his first starring role in The Pick-Up Artist and wrote Two Girls and a Guy for the actor after seeing him handcuffed on TV at the time of an earlier arrest. "He has a ravenous appetite for money, fame and to do great work. Paradoxically, he's oblivious to making a constructive path to reach that goal. People with one-tenth his talent are more practical in achieving the success they want. Right now, he's in a state of ignorance about...
...patrol officer for the Newburyport Police Department confirmed that Duncan wasnamed in a warrant for disorderly conduct andresisting arrest, issued on April...
Last year a power struggle in the leadership in Anlong Veng led to the arrest and show trial of Pol Pot, but he was replaced by Ta Mok, another hard-liner impervious to change. Mok, a one-legged man known widely as "the Butcher," resisted the March 24 mutiny, and by last week he had clawed back some territory in Anlong Veng. But with the Khmer Rouge's having lost so many civilians, observers say, it is just a matter of time before its final rump--estimated at 500 to 1,000 soldiers--is dissolved. "Ta Mok has painted himself...
GEORGE MICHAEL gave a little public performance last week in a bathroom at a park in Beverly Hills. It did not go well. The audience was an undercover cop who not only didn't recognize the singer but also arrested him for performing a "lewd act." To add insult to arrest, Michael had to suffer the advice of his frequent taunter Boy George, who wrote in a tab: "When push comes to shove, we are sisters under the skin." Boy was right. On Friday night Michael expressed regret for the embarrassing incident and admitted on CNN that...