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...neighbor, Nan Tiya, 46, is sprinkling water on the earth floor of his unfinished house to banish bad spirits. A married father of two, he was dragooned as a porter for Burmese military units fighting Karen rebels. He rolls down his battered jungle boots to show scars caused by the shackles porters must wear. "When we were exhausted, they gave us nothing. Instead, they hit us. If someone didn't move, an officer would take a stick and beat the man to death." Nan Tiya claims he and other captives were ordered to bury the corpses of 17 porters...
...mystery surrounding the February assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri [June 6] described the enormous influence that Syria has wielded in Lebanese political affairs for 30 years. In a Dec. 19, 1983, cover story, TIME explained the reasons for Syria's intense feelings about its neighbor...
...they sleep, the project has already begun to evoke a spirit that is a curious amalgam of Woodstock, the Olympic torch relay and a March of Dimes walkathon. Says Kragen: "Kids see it as a party. Yuppies see it as a return to activism The elderly see it as neighbor to neighbor Democrats as a challenge to grass-roots organizing, Republicans as voluntarism.' And for all of them it is a diverting way of finding contentment on a Sunday afternoon. --By Richard Stengel. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles
...discoverer of an image on a soybean-oil storage tank near Fostoria, Ohio [AMERICAN SCENE, Sept. 29], think it was Jesus? Or even a man? And what about the child? Jesus had no children. It could be Mary with the Christ child. To me the image resembles my neighbor down the street with his youngest daughter. Otto Ackerman Tempe, Ariz...
Pretoria also squared off against Mozambique, South Africa's Marxist neighbor to the northeast, which it accuses of harboring A.N.C. guerrillas. Mozambique, in turn, blames South Africa for supporting terrorist activity against its government. Last week Pretoria announced that no more permits would be issued for Mozambican migrants to work in South Africa, and that permits for the 95,000 Mozambicans employed there would not be renewed when they expired. That could prove a serious blow to Mozambique's poverty-stricken economy; remittances from these workers are an important source of revenue...