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...plan, the cargo ship will help lower the space station?s altitude, causing it to burn up in the earth?s atmosphere in what Moscow insists will be a controlled situation. However, some parts of Mir will make it through?officials expect some debris to fall into the Pacific Ocean off the Australian coast...
Santiago Chile?s armed forces admitted for the first time in 27 years that they executed about 150 political dissidents after General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte overthrew Salvador Allende Gossens? Marxist government in 1973, and then dumped the bodies into the Pacific Ocean, lakes and rivers. They also acknowledged that another 50 people were buried in clandestine graves throughout the country. The armed forces agreed in mid-1999 to produce information on the fate of more than 1,000 ?detained-disappeared,? provided that they wouldn?t be prosecuted; despite a wide campaign for information, however, about 800 people still remain unaccounted...
There's a palpable sense of fear in General Augusto Pinochet these days. Not that the former Chilean dictator will ever know the terror of the thousands of his countrymen his regime tortured to death in prison cells, or tossed screaming from aircraft high over the ocean. The fear Pinochet knows is the anxiety of the former strongman discarded by history and forced to face justice; to account for himself stripped of his uniform and the power to inflict unimaginable pain on others...
However good the intentions, there is a serious downside to all this generosity: funding your kids usually means saving less for your retirement. In Ocean Springs, a town on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a well-meaning couple worked for decades without ever indulging themselves or managing to save. Instead, they sent monthly checks, paid apartment deposits, covered medical, utility and tax bills, and clothed and fed their grown children and grandchildren. They once even made a $750 car payment when a daughter vacationing in Spain called home to complain that her Thunderbird might be repossessed if they did not come...
...usually keeps his temper under control. "It's a bit of a gamble doing a sequel," he says, making the understatement one morning as he sits at the kitchen table in his Pacific Palisades, Calif., home with eclectic art on the walls and a sprawling view of the ocean. "I don't want to think about it. I learn my lines, show up, make sure the check's in the mail...