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...case over to a jury. Franklin-Lipsker explained to NBC why she is putting her family through such a wrenching ordeal. "There was nothing I could do at the time to protect Susan," she said. "I was the only other person there. And I just feel that I owe it to her to tell the truth." Whatever the outcome, it is hard to imagine the Franklins being like other families again. If they ever were...
...says McClellan. "If we established relations with China, why not with Vietnam?" Former antiwar activist Anne Weills, who created a furor in 1968 when she went to Hanoi with a delegation that brought back three American prisoners, comes to the same conclusion from a different perspective. "We owe Vietnam a great debt," says the Berkeley attorney. "Americans have a role to play in the reconstruction of Vietnam because we had such a large role in destroying...
Weills' view is not widely shared: in the TIME/CNN poll, 80% say the U.S. does not owe Vietnam anything. Nor is the push to establish full diplomatic relations generally embraced by the Vietnamese who escaped in 1975 or have fled in flimsy boats since then. "The U.S. should not normalize until the Vietnamese government guarantees human rights," says Phac X. Nguyen, advertising manager of a Vietnamese-language newspaper in San Jose. "They lowered people to the life of animals...
...cold comfort, but a federal tax court in October 1988 ruled that the Councils did not owe $300,000 to the IRS. The court said they owed nothing...
...Subtle attempts to legislate away freedom are just as real as the use of clubs, tanks and jails," Nelson said at a press conference later in the morning. "When students around the world are putting their lives on the line for the privilege of voting, we owe it to them to vote ourselves...