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Bunyavanich is an environmental science and public policy concentrator and hails from Port Washington...
...memories are not eroded by the years--they just burn brighter in the mind of Peter Cecil Jones, who saw Steve Biko led to his death. He remembers the summer night in August 1977 and the roadblock on the highway in the eastern Cape, 80 miles from Port Elizabeth. He hears his friend's calm reply to the police officer's question, "Who are you, big man?": "I am Steven Bantu Biko." He recalls the long, fearful hours in a holding cell, where he and Biko destroyed a secret document by eating it. He remembers the handcuffs and leg-irons...
...ruled 6-1 against Bhutto after hearing convincing evidence of the former prime minister's corruption, phone-tapping, and a series of extrajudicial killings. Bhutto had also been accused of backing police hit squads in attacks against the Mohajir Qami Movement, an Indian Muslim opposition group, in the southern port city of Karachi. Bhutto, whose political career was born out of violence when she inherited the leadership of her father's populist party after he was deposed and later executed by General Mohammed Zia-ul Haq in 1977, first won the prime minister's office in 1988. She was dismissed...
...heart of rush hour in a French subway station Tuesday evening, killing at least two people and injuring 80 others. Seven of those wounded are said to be in "very serious" condition. According to state-run France Info radio, the blast occurred at 6:05 p.m. at the underground Port-Royal station, which serves the RER regional line. French Prime Minister Alain Juppe, who arrived on the scene soon after the blast, said no one has yet claimed responsibility, but suspicion immediately fell upon Algerian militants who had claimed responsibility for a string of similar bombings in 1995. Initial reports...
BORN: March 23, 1948, Port Arthur EDUCATION: Lamar U, B.S., 1973; U of Texas, D.D.S., 1976 FAMILY: Wife, Roxanne Richardson; five children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: Texas Army National Guard, 1969-75; Air Force, 1975-79 OCCUPATION: Dentist POLITICAL CAREER: Texas State Board of Dental Examiners, 1981-87; mayor of Woodville, 1982-84; Tyler County Republican chairman, 1990-95; Woodville School Board, 1992-95 ADDRESS: 1203 West Dogwood, Woodville...