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...staggering nearly starved into small towns. There, they tell of Mai Mai fighters placing victims' heads on sticks to proclaim control; of ravenous government soldiers pillaging food stocks; and of each side burning whole villages in retaliation for the locals' suspected support for the enemy. "The rebels took my sister into the forest. I never saw her again," says Kabange Mamitshu, 22, bathing at sunrise in the Congo River. Her brother-in-law went in search of his wife and disappeared too. "We found his body in the forests," Mamitshu says. "The Mai Mai had chopped off his head...
...scolds, however, knew what they were talking about. In a solar system crowded with sister worlds that either emerged stillborn like Mercury and Venus or died in infancy like Mars, we're finally coming to appreciate the knife-blade margins within which life can thrive. For more than a century we've been monkeying with those margins. It's long past time we set them right...
...experience as a Japanese American has always led me to believe early man in America came from Asia, as one theory posits in your story "Who Were the First Americans?" [March 13]. As a youngster I saw a picture of an Eskimo girl in a book, and my younger sister looked like her twin. When I flew into Buffalo, N.Y., on business, the cabdriver who picked me up thought I was from the Indian reservation up the river. When I was relocating my family from one Chicago suburb to another, a moving-company worker appeared to be Japanese American...
...SENTENCED. CHENG CHUI-PING, 57, a.k.a. Sister Ping, leader of a Chinese-immigrant-smuggling ring who helped finance the 1993 voyage of the freighter Golden Venture, which ran aground off New York with 300 starving Chinese passengers aboard, 10 of whom died trying to swim to U.S. soil; to the maximum sentence of 35 years in prison, for money laundering, conspiracy, and trafficking in ransom proceeds; in New York City. Cheng, who reportedly arranged the transport of thousands of illegal immigrants from her base in New York's Chinatown, claimed she was an innocent victim terrorized by Chinese gangs...
...started taking fire from the direction of a second house, prompting them to break down the door of that house and throw in a grenade, blowing up a propane tank in the kitchen. The Marines then began firing, killing eight residents-including the owner, his wife, the owner's sister, a 2-year-old son and three young daughters...