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...Friday night they had everyone compete. Theyannounced the preliminary talent and I had won.The next night they announced the top 10," Turnersaid. "Then they announced the winner of theinterview, and it was me. So I sort of knew...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Harvard Sophomore Is Miss Massachusetts | 7/14/1995 | See Source »

...vote is yes, the swimsuit parade will be the final phase of competition before the winner is chosen. If the vote is no, a different program--which organizers would not reveal--will be substituted...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Pageant May Abolish Swimsuits From Competition | 7/14/1995 | See Source »

...next February, cannot succeed himself, but has said he might run again in 2000.TINDER BOX? Insiders say that the Port-au-Prince mayoral election results are so explosive that public reaction to them could jeopardize national stability, TIME's Tammerlin Drummond reports. Haitian folk singer Mano Charlemagne, the putative winner, performs songs urging his fellow countrymen to kill all former Tontons Macoutes and dump their corpses on the doorstep of the U.S. special forces. At a recent campaign rally, he suddenly whipped out a .45-caliber pistol from his belt when a disturbance broke out. "His political symbol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI . . . RACING TO CLAIM VICTORY | 7/12/1995 | See Source »

...that he is innocent and might have been sentenced to life in prison were it not for a multimillion-dollar legal defense. Once they have been indicted and put on trial, people with limited financial resources stand a good chance of being convicted, even if innocent. Just as the winner of a formal debate is the better debater and is not necessarily the one whose position represents the truth, it seems that American justice depends less on truth and guilt or innocence than on the skills of the litigators. Henry Krochmal Windsor, Connecticut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1995 | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

Burma, one of the world's most repressive military regimes,stunned the international community by abruptly freeingAung San Suu Kyi-- Nobel peace prize winner and champion of the southeast Asian country's democracy movement -- from six years of house arrest. As hundreds of supporters gathered in a light rain outside her home in Rangoon, historically laconic military leaders merely noted that her sentence had expired. "No one expected this to happen," saysTIME's Sandra Burton, in the Burmese capital. "The move indicates far greater confidence on the part of the junta that neither Suu Kyi nor the people will rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMESE NOBEL LAUREATE FREED | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

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