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...Admiral Wang Hsi-ling, the former head of Taiwan's military intelligence bureau, guilty of plotting the murder of Chinese- American Writer Henry Liu, who was gunned down at his Daly City, Calif., home last Oct. 15. The sentence: life imprisonment. Wang's two aides, Major General Hu Yi-min, deputy director of the bureau, and Colonel Chen Hu-men, another Defense Ministry official, were each given 2½-year jail terms. The verdicts came ten days after the leader of Taiwan's powerful Bamboo Union Gang, Chen Chi-li, and his lieutenant, Wu Tun, were sentenced in a civilian court...
...than in similar past crises. As his last official act before being wheeled into the operating room, Reagan at 10:32 a.m. Saturday signed letters authorizing Vice President George Bush to "discharge powers and duties in my stead commencing with the administration of anesthesia," which began 1 hr. 16 min. later. Though Reagan injected some caveats about the application of the 25th Amendment, the message marked the first official transfer of power from a President to his Vice President in the nation's history. Even after he reassumed his official powers almost eight hours later, a system was being...
...flat, wide design gives you ample thumb room; it's easy to set brightness and zoom. The images were decent, but colors sometimes looked flat. The LG stores up to 200 pictures and about 20 min. of video...
...Damiano was shooting a 10-min. loop, set in a hospital, with Reems as the patient (he has a bandage bow-tied around his ailing member) and Linda as the ministering nurse. Then she performed her sleight-of-throat. As the actor recalled: "I couldn't believe she ate the whole thing!... It was a frightening sensation. My first thought was, 'Will she bring me back alive?'" (Spoken like a smart third banana.) "Gerry's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets and the cameraman's jaw brushed his shoes. I think all of us there knew we were present...
Clocking in at 3 hr. 45 min.-- three-quarters of an hour longer than the old test--the new exam, which debuted on March 12, is not just a measure of verbal and mathematical proficiency; it's a test of endurance. Kids are given two 5-min. breaks, which they may use for refueling. Ned Johnson, an SAT tutor who sat for the new exam himself, says he saw kids running out into the hallways and "stuffing their faces...