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Quayle's Wednesday press conference should have dampened the upbeat mood, but few in the Bush high command detected the warning flares. Aides were so enraptured with Quayle's energy and enthusiasm that they failed to listen carefully to his answers. Blindsided by a question on why he joined the National Guard, Quayle fell back on the advice that Bush Media Guru Roger Ailes gave the Indiana Senator during his 1986 re-election campaign: "If there is no advantage to you in a subject, don't talk about it." So instead of a full answer, Quayle spoke in fractured sound...
...P.L.O. delegation traveled to Egypt last week and won President Hosni Mubarak's support for a plan to "offer through a provisional government a political program that would be internationally acceptable," a P.L.O. official said. Speaking to the Paris weekly Journal du Dimanche, Arafat's second in command, Salah Khalaf, said the new agenda "would be completely different" from the 1968 National Charter calling for "armed struggle" to destroy Israel...
...recent detainees were tortured by Shin Bet and forced to reveal the names of confederates; Israeli officials deny any knowledge of the matter. So far, Shin Bet has arrested more than a dozen additional Palestinian leaders and confiscated a printing press used to churn out leaflets from the intifadeh command...
...that they drowned a boy, a young woman and a man, then boiled and ate parts of their bodies. Two children who had starved were also cannibalized. Before being rescued by Filipino fishermen on June 28, the refugees lost 58 passengers to exposure, hunger or drowning. The Dubuque's commander, Captain Alexander Balian, said the refugee boat was seaworthy when he saw it, but he has been removed from command while the inquiry continues...
Choked off at the center and fraying at the edges, Burma seemed primed for combustion. Harbingers of trouble had appeared in the form of occasional protests for almost a year, only to be quickly suppressed by security forces under the command of Sein Lwin, then the party's secretary-general. Ever strengthening tremors began two weeks ago, as larger and larger crowds, first of students, then of all manner of citizens, gathered at the Shwedagon Pagoda, the splendid golden shrine in North Rangoon, and the Sule Pagoda in the center of the city...