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...dead (57 in Jakarta), 385,000 displaced, damage estimated at more than $200 million, 80,000 people suffering from diarrhea, influenza and cholera, and only 265 doctors made available at government health posts. "The only help we've received from the government is when they loaned us four rubber boats to transport our things," says Andi Sayuti, head of the neighborhood rescue effort. "And even those were taken back after...
...look or act like a victim who had been forced by her abductors to rob a bank and denounce her grieving parents and her fiance as "pigs" and "clowns." She was as casual as if she had dropped by to answer a traffic summons. She was wearing stained rubber clogs and dark brown cotton pants, and beneath her striped, long-sleeved jersey she was braless... Next, Patty's friends Bill and Emily Harris went before [Judge] Woodruff. As Harris entered the courtroom, he scanned the expectant audience and cried out, "What do you say, comrades? Keep on trucking!" Then...
...Manh change a culture of opacity? Many think so?if he can convince the rest of his party to go along. In nine years, Manh helped transform the National Assembly from a rubber stamp into a reasonably representative legislature with televised sessions. "If he can do just half of what he accomplished in the National Assembly," says former U.S. Ambassador Douglas ("Pete") Peterson, "he can move Vietnam along the road of building a modern economy...
...West ’74 threw his temper tantrum, you got bloodied in the press. Surely you don’t want to give the liberal elite another excuse to go for your jugular, so I can’t blame you if you grit your teeth and rubber stamp the report. That’s what former President Neil L. Rudenstine would...
...megastore in an upscale neighborhood of Buenos Aires, a woman told TIME that police officers were encouraging people to head for the store. But when demonstrators marched on government buildings and set fires outside the Presidential Palace and on the ground floor of the Economy Ministry building, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd...