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...alerted that a dazed, naked Asian boy is staggering on a Milwaukee street. Jeffrey Dahmer, 31, convinces them that 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone is his homosexual lover. Dahmer happens to be a convicted child molester, but the police do not check him out. Instead of rescuing the young Laotian immigrant from Dahmer, who has since confessed to murdering and mutilating 17 men over the past 13 years, the cops seem to laugh off the incident as a gay love spat. They deliver the 14-year- old to Dahmer's apartment. And as soon as they leave, Dahmer reportedly proceeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milwaukee Murders: Did They All Have to Die? | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

Jeffrey Dahmer spent 10 months in prison for fondling a 13-year-old Laotian boy in 1988 and offering him $50 to pose nude for pictures. On his release, Dahmer was put on probation. Although he showed up at the probation office every month, his caseworker never visited Dahmer in his home, as is usually required. A state department of corrections spokesman said the requirement had been waived because the agent was overworked. Another serious lapse occurred in May, when police officers were called by two women who found a naked, bloodied Asian boy on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Flat of Horrors | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Matthew S. Meselson received the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award for determining the origins of "yellow rain," a mysterious toxin that Laotian anti-communist rebels said caused serious illness in many villages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Prof Honored For `Yellow Rain' Work | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

...September, 1982, former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig claimed yellow rain was a biological agent deliberately deployed by the Soviets against the Laotian rebels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Prof Honored For `Yellow Rain' Work | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

...biochemist added that his research, combined with an Army report in which Laotian refugees identified bee feces as the substance they had seen, convinced Meselson that yellow rain was not a biological weapon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Prof Honored For `Yellow Rain' Work | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

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