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...first body she saw, she says, was her 65-year-old neighbor, Bui Van Vat. Lying near him were his 62-year-old wife Canh and the couple's three grandchildren, all under 12 and all stabbed to death. Terrified, Lanh says she ran back inside her hut, a makeshift sleeping shelter with a low ditch dug in the floor to shield from incoming bullets. But first, she says, she glimpsed seven shadowy figures moving toward another nearby shelter. Later, she heard gunfire. It was an hour before Lanh worked up the courage to go outside. When...
...first body she saw, she says, was her 65-year-old neighbor, Bui Van Vat. Lying near him were his 62-year-old wife Canh and the couple's three grandchildren, all under 12 and all stabbed to death. Terrified, Lanh says she ran back inside her hut, a makeshift sleeping shelter with a low ditch dug in the floor to shield from incoming bullets. But first, she says, she glimpsed seven shadowy figures moving toward another nearby shelter. Later, she heard gunfire. It was an hour before Lanh worked up the courage to go outside. When...
...generation, memories of military invasions are still vivid. "It's really sad," laments Park Sung Pyo, a 63-year-old retired Seoul businessman. "I try to tell my children about the atrocities. They listen with one ear and it goes out the other ear, and then they buy my grandchildren things from Japan. They didn't live through the colonial experience, so it doesn't seem real to them...
...President of the U.S. so badly informed about the relationship between carbon-dioxide emissions and global warming and its catastrophic effects that he will not act decisively? Bush has a family he cares for, but his children and future grandchildren may have to survive in an ever more hostile atmosphere. As the most powerful individual in the world, he has the unique opportunity to enter history as the statesman who looked beyond the next election. HENRY E. VAN KETS Drongen, Belgium...
...howls of yesterday (actually, most good Democrats are still howling, or else preserve the election of 2000 in their hearts in the way a Croatian grandmother may cherish the bloody shirt in which her husband was stabbed by a Serb, in order to show it to her grandchildren and swear them to revenge) - I bring up these howls not to disturb the dead horse of that election, but to make a different point...