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...responsible for the death of at least a million Cambodians during their 1975-79 reign of terror, made clear they will not go quietly. Just two days after the U.N. vote, gunmen believed to belong to the Khmer Rouge massacred 33 ethnic Vietnamese in a floating village on Tonle Sap Lake. The attack and continued harassment of opposition political parties by the Vietnamese-installed Phnom Penh regime raise serious questions about the ability of the U.N. to conduct "free and fair" elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bye-Bye Ballots | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

MOST HOMEOWNERS WOULD READILY AGREE THAT the only good termite is a dead termite, but the one unearthed on a dig in the Dominican Republic was better than most. The insect, trapped between 25 million and 30 million years ago in a blob of tree sap that hardened into amber, has yielded genetic material that is the oldest ever studied, by at least 8 million years. It has also resolved a long-simmering dispute over the family tree of cockroaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tattletale Termite | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...same producers as Cruel. The album, however, doesn't pack the wallop to distinguish it from other slick R. & B. records on the charts these days. Something in Common, a ballad Brown shares with his wife Whitney Houston is typical of the problem: short on juice but heavy on sap. New jack may not be exhausted, but right now Bobby is fresh out of new ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Sep. 21, 1992 | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...made where sex is involved? Will a lover sap the artistic flame essential to the creation of great works? One looks at O'Keefe's work and thinks not; the passion there is unmitigated and uncompromised...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Flawless Acting, Careful Direction Give Passion and Sensitivity to Georgia | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

This clearly shows that the poor sap "Grunwald," perhaps being held hostage by the junta in the basement of the Lampoon castle, was trying to inject a message for us into what he was being forced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grunwald Did Not Act Alone | 1/24/1992 | See Source »

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