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...next morning, neighborhoods around the plant looked like ghost towns. Train service in and out of the area was halted, and masked police officers in protective gear stopped motorists from entering. The country's leaders went on national TV to admit that they didn't know what was wrong or how to end whatever was going on inside the plant. More hours ticked by during which no one tried to stop the nuclear reaction. Finally, after almost 20 hours, the disaster was contained, and local residents were told several hours later that they could go outside. Those living closest...
...ghost of CHARLES HORMAN continues to haunt the CIA. The American expatriate, killed during the 1973 coup led by Chilean General AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE, was immortalized in the Oscar-winning 1982 movie Missing. His death and revelations of agency support for Pinochet helped lead to congressional oversight of CIA activities. In the wake of Pinochet's arrest last year in Britain, Clinton asked the agency and four other branches of government to review for release "all documents that shed light on human rights abuses, terrorism and political violence" from 1968 to 1991. The CIA has released only a fraction...
Human memories are short, and even as the tattered ghost of Hurricane Floyd finally blew itself out over eastern Canada last weekend, it was easy to forget that it began the week as a meteorological giant--one of the century's largest and most powerful Atlantic storms. If it seems as if hurricanes are getting stronger these days, that's because they are. After a 30-year lull, the U.S. is once again being visited by hurricanes the size of the ones that battered the Eastern seaboard in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. Thanks to an unlucky confluence of events...
Fortunately, at least one recent film portrayed South Asians in the normal, everyday context in which they exist. The Sixth Sense, the surprise-hit ghost story starring Bruce Willis, featured not one, not two, but three South Asian actors. And none of them were portraying stereotyped characters. One was a doctor, and the other two played an engaged couple picking out a ring with the usual bickering...
...problem with proxy armies is that they don't always pack up and go home when their sponsors do. The Indonesian military may have officially given up the ghost in East Timor, but their local militia allies on Thursday began menacing international peacekeepers, firing weapons into the air and massing for an attack in the capital, Dili. Australian troops, who make up the bulk of the United Nations force, came under sniper fire at a house where they were quartered, and even more worrying for the international soldiers were reports that Indonesian troops had fired their weapons near a peacekeeping...