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...Jinghong, explode as a center for domestic tourism. The other big draw is the group of lawless towns just over the Burmese border. Judging by the crush of the crowds, this is Chinese holiday heaven: an open orgy of casinos, transvestite dance revues and brothels. Although Rangoon's military junta doesn't officially admit non-Chinese, a small fee or a little organizing at your hotel can get you a day's pass. Try this only if you like the sight of thousands of mainlanders cutting loose...
...August coup, had all but accused Gorbachev of high treason in a closed session of parliament. But still, the putsch fizzled. The first ominous lull turned quickly into a baffling loss of momentum. Soon after the events, the story leaked out that the putsch leadership was less a junta than an all-day vodka party. Most of the eight leaders are said to have spent three days dead drunk. This may be so, but it was not key reason for failure. The junta suffered a failure of nerve, but its biggest problem was a lack of decisive leadership...
Person of the Week LETTING BYGONES BE, YOU KNOW ... The generals are in exile or jail; Maggie is on the lecture circuit. It's been two decades since Argentina's junta launched its ill-fated grab for the Falkland Islands. Last week Tony Blair made the first visit to Argentina by a British PM since the hostilities...
...Prince. The former general who overthrew civilian President Dumarsais Estime in 1950 oversaw Haiti's most marked period of prosperity, the result of a record influx of tourists and high coffee exports. But Hurricane Hazel in 1954 inflicted heavy damage on the country, and he was abandoned by his junta two years later. Exiled to New York, he returned only after the removal of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986. DIED. KATHERINE GRAHAM, 84, retired publisher and president of the Washington Post and Pulitzer-winning memoirist; in Boise, Idaho. After taking over the newspaper in 1963, following the suicide...
...INDICTED. JORGE VIDELA, 75, former Argentine dictator, for participating with five other South American despots, including Chile's Augusto Pinochet, in a scheme to kill leftist opponents; in Buenos Aires. Videla's junta sized power in a 1976 coup, and from then until 1981 collaborated with the other governments to hunt political exiles in their own countries. His regime is linked to the deaths of up to 30,000. SENTENCED. KHALFAN KHAMIS MOHAMED, 27, to life in prison for making explosives used to bomb the U.S. embassy in Tanzania in 1998, killing 11 people; in New York. The same jury...