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Last week two more people were added to the list of Pol Pot's victims. In March 1996, British mine clearer Christopher Howes and his interpreter, Houn Hourth, were abducted by Khmer Rouge guerrillas near the famous Angkor temples. Their fate had been a mystery, with reported live sightings as recently as last June, plus ransom hoaxes and all the usual false leads attached to a Westerner's missing in Indochina. But Ke Pauk and Yim Panna, two senior Khmer Rouge leaders who had been instrumental in organizing the Anlong Veng mutiny, told TIME in separate interviews that both...
LONDON: Scientists with the European Space Agency say the picture is getting clearer: Titan, Saturn's moon, is just like Earth -- only colder. Data from the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), which is orbiting around Earth but looking at Saturn, indicates that not only is water rather plentiful on Titan, it may have been brought there by comets -- long theorized to be the way water came to Earth, allowing life to begin...
Sales said he believes the difficulties have been successfully resolved. He said, "We now have a clearer line of communication with the Boston Police Department...
...American people should too. Those of us who believed in what he stood for accepted this and supported him despite the questions about his past. The deal struck between the voters and candidate Clinton went something like this: "We'll overlook your past indiscretions and support you with a clearer conscience as long as you behave yourself...
...loyalty must give way to 'principle'--this we know--but aren't there times, too, when principle must give way to loyalty?" But I'm not sure it's quite that simple. Three portraits of loyalty--two historical and one in the more recent past--might give us a clearer picture of the complexities of loyalty...