...and abortion. By midmorning, about 188 demonstrators who had blocked a driveway to the convention hall had been arrested. Protesters said one of those arrested was Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, India's independence leader.

DILI, East Timor (AP) -- The United Nations on Wednesday named independence leader and former guerrilla commander Xanana Gusmao the winner of East Timor's first presidential election. Gusmao's landslide victory...

...that produces a fungus." In those fearful times, the government also shipped poison to the Congo intended for independence leader Patrice Lumumba and supplied pistols and carbines to dissidents who shot Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo...