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...bosses describing him as "the next Ed Murrow." The self-deprecating Kuralt dismissed such praise as "ridiculous." Kuralt left hard news in 1967 to launch "On the Road." The three month trial was an immediate hit, and Kuralt over the next two-plus decases found a large and loyal audience for his unique stories about the American people...
Above all, she was a good person: caring, loyal, entertaining, at times wonderfully exasperating, a lover of good conversation and friendships. Her elegance, exacting standards and generosity will live on, I hope, in our own careers and pages...
...life, the seven men and five women, in part if not as a whole, were willing to believe that McVeigh had been a good soldier and teacher and was deeply affected by the events at Waco and Ruby Ridge--but not one felt that McVeigh was a "good and loyal friend," as the official questionnaire worded it. The jurors unanimously sentenced him to death. McVeigh showed no emotion, and as he was led away, he used two fingers to wave to the jury. He turned to his parents and his sister to mouth the words...
PNOMH PENH, Cambodia: Yeah, right. A clandestine Khmer Rouge radio broadcast claimed today that Pol Pot was captured Thursday night by a group of former comrades now loyal to Cambodia's royalist premier. Nobody's actually seem Pol Pot in captivity, of course, except the various groups that have claimed to hold him. Having just admitted they were wrong when they claimed to have captured him, Royalist government officials now are reluctant to say what they know. Meanwhile, Second Prime Minister Hun Sen, the leader of the formerly communist Cambodian People's Party, coolly dismissed the news as another flimsy...
...weekend to nearby Kinshasa, Congo, the U.S. Embassy is desperately trying to negotiate a cease-fire so that some two dozen American citizens holed up in the embassy compound can reach the airport and flights out. The evacuation efforts are taking place amid continued intensive fighting between militiamen loyal to deposed military leader Gen. Denis Sassou-Nguesso and beleagured troops loyal to President Pascal Lissouba who are struggling for control of Brazzaville. Bracing itself for the worst, France, which has already lost one soldier in the clash, today deployed roughly 500 soldiers, equipped with armed vehicles, to Brazzaville...