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Chin, who earned at least $300,000 as a spy from 1952 to 1985, offered his remarkable admission in an attempt to characterize his espionage as a personal campaign for reconciliation between his homeland and his adopted country. Of the Nixon document, he said, "I thought if that information could be brought to the attention of the Chinese leadership it might break the ice." It took the jury just 3 1/2 hours to find Chin guilty on 17 felony charges, including six counts of espionage-related activities. Chin faces a possible sentence of life imprisonment...
...This is my people, my home and my heart," said Dr. Haing S. Ngor, on the Thai border of his troubled homeland, Cambodia. A year after his Oscar-winning portrayal of a news photographer's harrowing escape from the Communist Khmer Rouge in The Killing Fields, the physician turned movie star has returned to Southeast Asia to complete a European television documentary and a book. "I want to show the suffering of the Cambodian people," he explained after meeting Chen Ian, 12, whose parents were killed in a Vietnamese attack on their refugee camp. The latest rulers in Phnom-Penh...
...seven students is a South African national who, if suspended, will lose his visa and be forced to return to his homeland, Goldszmidt said. The other six students also face possible suspension...
Aquino issued an election eve statement in theform of a prayer: "Deliver us from this evil, thiscrisis which 20 years of evil rule has broughtus." She holds Marcos responsible for the death ofher husband, Benigno Aquino, who was a visitingprofessor at Harvard before being assassinatedupon his return to his homeland...
...outspoken critic of the South African apartheid state, Tutu is expected to speak about the failure of governmental policies in his homeland and to attack Harvard's investment policies in that country...