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...Highlands, he recalls: "Police, soldiers and Vietnamese people came to our village and kicked in our doors and attacked us." Now, having trekked for days, he is hiding in Ratanakiri?some 600 km from Phnom Penh and the nearest office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. He lives beneath a small sheet of plastic with five other men in dense jungle, where torrential rainstorms are daily occurrences. In another group elsewhere in the province, an eight-year-old girl has built a miniature house out of twigs in a clearing of jungle beside the plastic sheet where...
...knew at the time was that I had to make sure rabid scoop-hungry journalists could not could not jump the fence and tear the paper enough to see what was beneath it. The night passed without incident, but it seemed like one of the longest nights of my life. For a while I tried to guess which name it was based on the length of the paper. I thought for sure it was Vilsack and then Gephardt, because the paper seemed to be low enough to cover a lower-case P. I never guessed Edwards. I was too tired...
...posters also push Kim's economic policies, often exulting in the nation's ability to overcome adversity. In one of them, a railway worker carries a walkie-talkie in one hand and a signal flag in the other, beneath the words "Let Us Solve the Strained Railway Transportation Problem!" Another poster shows a young farmer from the county of Daehongdan, where the potato crop has purportedly doubled. It reads, "Following the Example of Daehongdan, More Potatoes for the People!" In a country where at least a million people are believed to have died of starvation under Kim's regime, there...
...board an ocean liner for a holiday. Behind the wheel bomber shows off the wiring to the explosive device and the trigger, a button between the seats. The camera records the truck disappearing into the night and the devastating explosion as it reaches its target, the American position beneath Khalidya bridge, west of the restive city of Fallujah...
Reagan's instincts, like his rhetoric, evolved over the course of his two terms as the ground began shifting beneath him. After a decade of Presidents carefully talking detente, Reagan denounced the Soviet Union as the "evil empire" and accused its leaders of claiming "the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat." To armor such rhetoric, Reagan demanded and got a huge increase in U.S. defense spending. He nearly doubled defense spending during his first term while deploying medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe and battling communists in Central America. He rarely gave ground, and fumbles in foreign...