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...when the world's largest airliner smashes into a mountain, there is no escape, except for the very few--four this time--favored by the whims of fate. That was tragically clear last week as the helicopters carried body after body, wrapped in bright blankets, down from the smoldering wreckage on Mount Osutaka. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Yukinori Ishikawa/Fujioka and Edwin M. Reingold/Tokyo
...House killed in committee a voucher bill similar to Bennett's. California Democrat Augustus Hawkins, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, vows the same fate for the new measure, which he brands "a cruel hoax on the nation's very poorest families...
Upon reading the article "Belated Concern" [NATION, Nov. 11], I was amazed to see how my brother Michael Walker was described during his sentencing. He was made to seem like an insolent little boy, casually "grinning" at his wife and sister and not taking his fate seriously. Michael has committed a grave error, for which he will pay the price. The smile was merely an attempt to comfort his tearful wife, who is having to learn to accept the fact that through no fault of her own, she will not have her husband for the next decade. Margaret Walker Norfolk...
...days during the fall, the drama of succession unfolded inside the cavernous Great Hall of the People in Peking. At stake were the future of China's political leadership and the fate of its economic reforms. By the end of the Communist Party conference, 131 senior officials, mostly in their 70s and 80s, had agreed to step down from high positions. That spate of resignations, the biggest party shake-up in nearly a decade, prepared the way for the rise of a new generation of leaders who will guide China into the 21st century...
...were sent to Southeast Asia to fight an equally vague, brutal war, ostensibly to promote freedom in that region. Many of us who served there came back scarred and maimed, and others did not return at all. The aims of our "glorious cause" were never achieved. May fate be kinder to the class of '05. Steve Williams U.S.M.A., 1966 Fayetteville, North Carolina...