Word: asia
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...still looking for the basic elements of political spectacle: star witness, clear story line, boffo ending. Virtually every principal figure on the foreign-money side of the scandal plans to take the Fifth or has fled--bankrollers James Riady, Charlie Yah Lin Trie and Pauline Kanchanalak are living in Asia, beyond the reach of subpoenas...
Thompson may be hoping to fill in the blanks with a team of gumshoes he dispatched to Asia last Friday. But so far, committee sources tell TIME, the six investigators--two FBI agents, three G.O.P. staff members and one Democrat--have lined up appointments with only two bit players of the more than two dozen people they had hoped to interview. State Department officials tell TIME the China leg of the trip was canceled after the communist government refused to allow independent fact finding there. Instead Beijing promised to allow the team to meet with government officials to discuss...
Cohen learned of Ralston's affair only last Monday from reporters who had heard of it from Ralston's former war-college classmates. His only discussions with Ralston on the matter have been over the phone (the general was on an official, week-long trip to central Asia). Ralston, 53, told Cohen the affair occurred while he and his first wife, Linda, were separated. She disputes that assertion, claiming the affair continued and led to their 1988 divorce. The next year Ralston married his current wife, who was not involved in the affair...
HONG KONG: TIME Asia expert Oscar Chiang reports that the threat of violence on the night of the Hong Kong handover must be taken very seriously as the turf battles between free-speech and pro-China advocates intensify. A leading Hong Kong Democrat warned Wednesday that a planned free-speech protest in Victoria Park on the night of the handover could turn violent if China resorts to such ''dirty tricks'' as instead granting the permit for the space to the suddenly-interested pro-China Hong Kong Federation of Women. Hong Kong Democrats, says Chiang, see that they are about...
...alone qualifies these fossils as a major find. Until they were discovered in 1994, human remains in Europe dated back only half a million years, in contrast to 1.8 million years in Asia and more than 2 million in Africa. And if the specimens represent a new species, the significance is even greater. Conventional wisdom had it that both humans and Neanderthals evolved from a species called Homo heidelbergensis that lived around 500,000 years...