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Ostensibly, his career will begin Dec. 12, when the world will see him in Steven Spielberg's film "Amistad." Ashong plays Buakey, an African slave who takes part in a 19th century rebellion while on a Cuban ship crossing the Atlantic. The leading role is Ashong's first professional acting...
...turnout of more than a million mourners in London, particularly those of the younger generation, for a glimpse of Diana's cortege was the expression of Britons' disapproval of the monarchy, against which Diana had staged a rebellion. The public's views must have shocked the inmates of Buckingham Palace. The lowering of the flag to half-staff under pressure of public opinion was the beginning of the end of an era. AGHA KAFEEL BARIK Karachi...
...raisers (TIME Daily) ... At the FDA's request, Redux and Fen/Phen manufacturers are withdrawing their drugs from the market (TIME Daily) ... Disgraced former Chinese Communist chief Zhao Ziyang, purged after the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, asks the party to reverse its verdict that those protests were a "counter-revolutionary rebellion" (TIME Daily) ... Thirty-three people are missing following a mysterious crash involving a U.S. Air Force transport plane and a German military airliner off the coast of Africa (TIME Daily) ... TIME magazine also reports that America Online is forging alliances with Microsoft (TIME Daily) ... U.S. markets anxiously await corporate earnings...
...hold the line," says TIME's Asia expert Oscar Chiang. "If he fully reinstates Zhao, it would be a refutation of Deng Xiaoping, and the party hard-liners won't allow that." One compromise would be to rehabilitate Zhao while maintaining that the protests constituted a "counter-revolutionary rebellion" that needed to be crushed. But as Chiang points out, even the slightest nod to Zhao would be a sign of changing times in Beijing...
There he practiced what he now calls "cleansing" violence. If rebellion was the only way to rid Uganda of its rapacious despots, he would lead one. Starting in early 1981 with 30 men and 27 stolen rifles, he entered Kampala five years later as the head of a highly motivated, highly disciplined army of more than...