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...hell was breaking loose. "The kids were screaming insults, throwing themselves around at the walls," recounts Partridge. "They said they wanted to die. They were all suicidal." The local Innu Council immediately chartered a plane to take the youngsters, under police escort, to a group home near Goose Bay, 186 miles to the south. Later, three more gasoline-sniffing youths were evacuated to await transfer to another native rehabilitation center...
Somewhere between the heavenly promise of America and the hellish reality of Haiti lies a way station on the Cuban coast called Guantanamo Bay. There, at a U.S. naval base, more than 200 Haitians have languished in tin-roofed barracks for up to 17 months, surrounded by wire fences and plagued by banana rats. Last year the Bush Administration ruled that they had plausible claims for political asylum. But because most of them tested positive for the AIDS virus, they are barred from the U.S. Suspicious of their captors and even their doctors, many have staged a hunger strike...
...snub-nosed .38 revolver aimed at Bay Lop's temple and the grimace on his face are etched into the memory of every American who read a newspaper in 1968. His summary execution by General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of South Vietnam's national police, during the second day of the 1968 Tet offensive in Saigon altered U.S. public opinion about what was at stake in the war as much as any other event did. A quarter-century later, the victim's widow Nguyen Thi Lop, 60, lives in a decrepit house on the outskirts of what is now called...
...Clinton Administration may choose to keep the embargo against Vietnam. On the other hand, Clinton could side with those who believe that if he renews relations he will complete the painful process of healing. Bay Lop's widow is ready. "My husband died for our independence," she says, "but my son has studied English. If he could work for a new American consulate here, I would be glad...
Mallgrave and Drury no doubt got the message. They're not from the Bay-area, but they know what's on the line Monday night at 6 p.m., when Harvard skates onto the uneasy Boston Garden ice to play Northeastern...