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...mental state may have an adverse effect." But such words of pathos seemed to hold sway neither over the police nor the rebels inside, who once again warned police away with a spray of gunfire. A bullet hit one of the carriers, but no injuries were reported; the commandos, defiant, returned for another march a half-hour later. Rebels, still holding 72 hostages, accuse police of deliberately trying to provoke a fight as an excuse to storm the compound. Though Peru has reaffirmed that hostage safety remains their first concern, plans for negotiations continue to be frustrated. If a flare...
...sites where union leaders are taking shelter. "If the workers do not stop their illegal strikes immediately, the government will act in a firm and resolute way to protect national security," senior prosecutor Choi Byong-kuk said, suggesting that the union leaders had ties with communist North Korea. But defiant labor leaders continue to talk tough. "We are prepared for a prolonged struggle and we are confident that public opinion is on our side," Kwon said. "As the head of state, President Kim must think about saving the economy, not his face...
...business leaders, as well as many of those in the U.S., where he co-chairs the U.S.-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Committee with former U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker. More important, his family bridges the chasms separating the communist mainland from capitalist Hong Kong and a defiant Taiwan...
Still, the lessons of these defiant early believers stayed with the church, whose devotees spent much of the next millennium obsessively copying and recopying their sacred texts. It was a brutally inefficient process. Cloistered Benedictines toiled for years in musty scriptoriums, transcribing copy after copy of the Bible into leatherbound books. This medieval Xerox system was painfully low-tech: a monk would slowly copy from exemplar Latin Bibles as he and his brothers inked and gilded lavishly illustrated pages at the rate of roughly...
...wild, Manson-like outburst. A career criminal who has been in and out of jail since he was a teenager, Davis knows that child molesters are not popular in prison, and he has been eager to deny that he raped Polly before strangling her. But his defiant statement made it "very easy" to pronounce the death sentence, Judge Thomas C. Hastings said. And Marc Klaas vowed to get the ultimate satisfaction. "The last thing Polly saw before she died was Richard Allen Davis' eyes," he said. "The last thing Richard Allen Davis will see is my eyes, I hope...