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...carry him, so I just kept running," said McFarlane. "I felt pretty guilty. I was very glad he made it." When rescuers finally reached the four survivors two hours later, they found Williams' backpack, altimeter and sunglasses melted and $6,000 in traveler's checks burned in his pocket. Somehow he was alive...
...President Mobutu Sese Seko seldom misses Sunday Mass. It is a ritual he has faithfully observed during his nearly 30 years of absolute power, a tenure marked by the torture and killing of his opponents and corruption that has funneled much of his nation's wealth into his private pocket. Now 62 and in robust health, Mobutu governs from his native fiefdom of Gbadolite, a jungle village close to the equator. Surrounded at all times by heavily armed troops, he remains impervious to the growing clamor among 35 million Zairians for an end to his disastrously autocratic rule...
Doyle said Ezra's loss in the finals should not overshadow his overall performance. Barragon entered the tournament with the last three titles under his belt and the number one seed in his pocket...
...coming weeks by a series of bulletins from Silicon Valley. EO Inc., which last fall unveiled the first pen-based computer with a built-in cellular phone, will begin shipping finished products sometime this spring. Apple Computer, which has been teasing the press with carefully measured leaks about a pocket-size bundle of wonders called Newton, will belatedly deliver the first models sometime before summer (having missed | a self-imposed deadline last month). And this week a company called General Magic, which has been surrounded with breathless secrecy since it was founded three years ago by ex-Apple employees -- including...
...transition officials insist that the greatest challenge is the least concrete: to make clear to the public that the Attorney General is not just the President's lawyer, and that the Justice Department is not in the pocket of whatever special interests hold sway in Washington at this political moment. "The new leadership is going to have to project the idea," says a Clinton adviser, "that we are going to enforce the law fairly, for all citizens...