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...Filipinos were yet concerned with the broader consequences of the Cardinal's plea for social peace. Their concern was with Aquino. Nonetheless, after days of public viewing of the martyr's corpse, the crowds respected the Aquino family's wish for a relatively private funeral. Among the nonfamily members present at the service were officials of the U.S. (Ambassador Michael Armacost), Japan, Canada, Australia and the European Community, which sent representatives despite the Philippine foreign ministry's disapproval. No one from the Marcos regime came to the funeral...
...improprieties, "If you think it's bad here, you ought to see it in Tennessee." The Justice Department made haste to do exactly that, eventually prosecuting 44 cases in that state alone. Among those nailed: the brother and uncle of former Governor Ray Blanton. As guilty contractors began plea bargaining for lighter sentences and lower fines, they implicated other firms outside Tennessee, a process that quickly revealed an ever widening web of anticompetitive conspiracy...
Sloan-Kettering officials called the New York City police, the FBI and New York Telephone security, which tapped the phone lines connected to the machine. Then Chui tried to reach the intruders by leaving messages in their computer terminals. "You have done some harm to the system," read one plea. "Please call us and help us repair the damage." About an hour after the message went out, someone called back. "He said he was sorry," recalls Chui. "But when we asked how he got into the system he refused to answer...
...government of French President François Mitterrand has sent close to $40 million worth of arms and supplies to its former colony since late June. Last week France responded to an urgent plea from Habré by shipping antiaircraft weaponry to N'Djamena. Mitterrand has hesitated to send French troops to Chad. But he has come under pressure from a number of African nations that fear a Libyan victory in Chad would encourage Gaddafi to spread his subversion throughout the area...
...December of 1967 Lyndon Johnson launched a mad jet dash around the world. Reynolds ended up as the trip's pool reporter in the Vatican when L.B.J. met Pope Paul VI on Christmas Eve for a joint plea for peace in Viet Nam. In the muted elegance of the Pope's library, Johnson gave the Pope a present. Reynolds watched as His Holiness unwrapped the gift, lifted it carefully from its packing, then stood nose to nose with a plastic bust of L.B.J. "Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?" Reynolds asked, grinning from...