Word: commitments
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Swiss investigators are convinced that a significant number of the 48 cult members found dead in two villages did not commit suicide but were murdered, according to TIME Switzerland reporter Robert Kroon. Reason: In one location police found several suitcases all packed, as if the members had "traveled from elsewhere for a meeting of the sect," says Kroon. "Police sources tell me they think it's peculiar that people would have their bags packed before they get ready to die." Investigators also tell Kroon that they think the deaths are related to disagreements within the cult. Another indication of murder...
Other proposal include a "no-scandal guarantee." Hanselman wrote that he will resign if the council's "reputation...is damaged due to any act of incompetence or indiscretion I commit during my insure as presi- dent...
...phone calls from the U.S. informing him that American airborne troops had taken off and the invasion was about to begin. "He concluded we were part of a trap," says Nunn. Biamby told Cedras to go into hiding instantly and warned Nunn that he would commit suicide before he would flee the country. Nunn said he feared "it was over, we weren't going to get any agreement." Cedras said he had to consult his president, meaning Emile Jonassaint, the former Supreme Court Justice who had been installed by the military...
Until then, shuttle riders must either commit the posters to memory, or simply wait it out and hope a shuttle comes...
...Population and Development, ended in surprising peace and harmony, even though it had opened amid fierce disputes about abortion and threats of violence by Islamic fundamentalists. For once the U.N. was truly united: no country voted against the final draft of a 113-page plan calling on governments to commit $17 billion annually by the year 2000 to the cause of curbing population growth...