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...team had interviewed witnesses who had seen a jet explode in midair, others who found two dead bodies at the crash site and others who claimed that they had buried the two pilots. The Vietnamese investigators concluded that Scharf and Massucci both died when their plane crashed into Suoi Pai Mountain...
...open market. The local People's Committee compound, a series of one-story concrete buildings, would be our base of operations. Four witnesses who had either seen the crash or its aftermath made the trek from outlying villages to be interviewed. Two would serve as guides up nearby Suoi Pai Mountain to the crash site itself. Over cups of bitter green tea, I interrogated the witnesses as carefully as possible...
...impetus for the visits is the June 1991 referendum in which Puerto Ricans will vote on whether to retain commonwealth status, apply for statehood or seek independence, according to Lee Pai of the Harvard Foundation, which is co-sponsoring the program...
Even when they do not hold high office, the relatives of China's elite enjoy lives of privilege. Known as the taizi pai, or the princes' faction, they attend the best schools, get the best jobs, live in luxury apartments and drive Mercedes-Benz to shop in special stores. Such advantages naturally gall the less favored. "Why him and not me?" asks a party official who was recently leapfrogged by a young taizi pai colleague. "You ponder the question, and the answer is nepotism...
...issue will come to a head next month when the 13th Communist Party Congress meets to select the country's top leaders. In secret ballots last month, grass-roots party members reportedly rejected several prominent taizi pai as delegates. Among them: Chen Yuan, the son of Politburo Member Chen Yun and a member of the standing committee of the Peking Municipal Party, and Chen Haosu, Vice Minister of Radio, Film and Television and son of the late Marshal Chen Yi. Yet neither is finished in politics. Insiders expect Chen Yuan to be named Deputy Party Secretary in Peking, while Chen...