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...Born in Canada, MacNeil was an aspiring actor and playwright before joining Reuters in London in 1955. From 1960 on, he was a TV journalist, notably on foreign assignments for NBC. By 1971 he was in public television, where he and Lehrer co-anchored the network's coverage of the Watergate hearings. He started the Robert MacNeil Report in 1975, which evolved into the 30-minute MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1976 and, by 1983, became the full-fledged MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour...
...angles at which the quantum bullets ricochet tell scientists how the target atoms are arranged. That knowledge has already led to advances in semiconductors and may someday explain the bizarre phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity. Clifford Shull, now retired from M.I.T., and Bertram Brockhouse from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, helped perfect neutron-scattering techniques in the 1940s and '50s. Today, nearly a half-century later, they have Nobels to show for it. Ironically, the man who did the pioneering work in the field, Shull's mentor Ernest Wollan, died in 1984. By Nobel rules, the prize is never awarded...
Allegations of gunrunning in Australia and money laundering in Canada and Europe. A suicide note addressed to the French Interior Minister. Two more booby-trapped houses, primed to erupt in flames at a telephone call...
Those were some of the mysteries that tantalized investigators on three continents last week as they continued to probe the deaths of 53 members of the Order of the Solar Temple, an apocalyptic religious cult, in Switzerland and Canada two weeks ago. One question was answered: Luc Jouret, 46, the spiritual leader of the cult, was among those whose bodies were found in three burned ski chalets in Granges-sur-Salvan, east of Geneva. Jouret's charred remains, along with those of co-leader Joseph di Mambro, 70, were identified from dental records. The finding ended an international manhunt...
...only days before their deaths. A copy of a letter that began "Dear Charlie" was sent to the newspaper, claiming that the French embassy in Ottawa had been instructed by Paris not to renew Jocelyne's passport last year, at a time when the couple were still living in Canada. It was Pasqua's "desire to destroy" the Solar Temple through "unsupportable harassment," the Di Mambros' letter said, that had led them to "decide to leave this terrestrial plane...