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...table and sit down if they haven't accepted that there won't be any freeing of prisoners." Fujimori said other issues, including improved prison conditions for the jailed rebels and safe passage and possible pardons for the hostage-takers, could be raised. Red Cross representative Michel Minnig and Roman Catholic archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani visited the residence Wednesday, raising hopes that talks to free the 73 hostages might begin. Trouble is, the rebels insist that freeing the prisoners be a condition of any hostage release. In recent days, police have thrown trash and stones over the wall...
Raised a devout Roman Catholic in Quang Ngai, Vietnam, she left home at 22 to study in England, eventually becoming an interpreter for the Red Cross. At 30, she met and married a German doctor but left him, amicably she says, to become a Buddhist nun and pursue enlightenment in India. Her recognition as a spiritual leader came rather suddenly in 1982 when she tried to buy a copy of the Hindu sacred work the Bhagavad-Gita that she says she saw in a shop along the Ganges. The shopkeepers said there were none in stock; she insisted...
...Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." (History...
...attended the ill-fated reception with her husband Yoshimoto, 57. Etsuko was released on Wednesday night, but Yoshimoto remained. On Thursday she attempted to hand a packet of stomach tablets to the Red Cross workers who were acting as go-betweens, with a note addressed to her husband in Roman alphabet. Added to it was the single Japanese word, ganbatte. It means "hang in there...
OPRAH WINFREY She'll receive an on-air declaration of love from Stedman. A double-wedding with Madonna? --George Roman...