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...brutal crackdown on the mainland. On Jan. 2, Wong awoke as usual at 6 a.m. and made the 10-minute walk from her apartment to a nearby park, where she spent an hour practicing the group's freeze-frame meditation exercises. When she arrived at the office, her boss was waiting. He bluntly told Wong she was fired?despite ?having offered her a promotion two days before. "He had asked me several times to stop practicing Falun Gong in public because his business sometimes requires him to deal with mainland officials," she says. "I don't think he was firing...
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...1980s before going off to join the mujahedin fighting Soviet occupation in Afghanistan. But he was an unknown "walk-in" the day he presented himself at the visa office of an American embassy in mid-1996, saying he sought not to receive a visa but to betray his terrorist boss. He said he had been a member of a group in Afghanistan that "wanted to make war against your country," until he stole organizational funds for himself and had to flee for his life. Now he wanted to warn his new protectors that bin Laden's outfit "might...
DIED. DALE EVANS, 88, dulcet-voiced cowgirl, devoted humanitarian, author of more than 20 books and widow of Roy ("King of the Cowboys") Rogers; in Apple Valley, Calif. Evans' boss caught her singing while she worked--as a stenographer at a Dallas insurance company--and prodded her to appear on a company-sponsored radio program. Not long after, she was cast in her first of 28 films with Rogers, beginning a long reign as the radiant "Queen of the West." Despite her immense popularity, she was often outbilled by her husband's horse, Trigger, which co-starred in 90-plus...
...always been especially leery about losing a pilot, says a senior Pentagon officer. "Saddam is eventually going to get lucky. We just want to delay that day as long as possible." The wily boss of Baghdad had been pouring money into reconstructing his dated (but deadly) "Tall King" and "Volex" radars and linking them together with new underground fiber-optic cables. That would give the dishes much sharper eyes in the sky and antiaircraft shooters a faster bead on their targets. Pilots on no-fly patrol have lately noticed newly aggressive Iraqi tactics in picking up their aircraft, and they...