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...This distinction is narrow and dishonorable, says Sunai Phasuk, a Thai academic and consultant for Human Rights Watch (HRW). "These people are not just fleeing war, but also forced labor, executions, mass relocations and systematic rape," he says. HRW accuses Thailand of "violating international law" for denying basic humanitarian assistance to the Shan. A recent report by the New York-based NGO also documents the murder, rape, enslavement and brutal displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians during the Burmese army's long-running assault on Karen insurgents; some 650,000 people, says HRW, have been made homeless in eastern...
...future debt moratorium. One of the basic principles of our foreign policy is the peaceful solution of controversies. We have not considered it useful to foment conflict or confrontation. Mexico believes more in negotiation than in confrontation...
...most aggressive of Ma Bell's offspring has been Philadelphia-based Bell Atlantic. Its businesses outside the basic telephone field, which include a computer-repair chain and a financing operation, accounted for $427 million of the company's $9.1 billion in revenues for 1985. Bell Atlantic executives hope to branch out even further, by entering the property-and-casualty insurance business...
...creating a new generation of illiterates." With those words, Robert Barnes, an official of the U.S. Department of Education, last week released a chilling analysis of a basic literacy test given by the Bureau of the Census to 3,400 Americans age 20 and over. Thirteen percent flunked the test, able to answer only 20 or fewer of the 26 multiple-choice questions. (Sample: Don't allow your medical identification card to a) be used b) have destroy c) go lose d) get expired by any other person.) "It was a pretty simple test," notes Barnes dryly...
...thing in common: each personified his country's most competitive, indeed combative instincts. At first, that seemed destined to keep them apart. Yet there they were on Saturday and Sunday, exchanging not just handshakes but straight talk on a range of difficult and contentious subjects. The evolution dramatized some basic principles of the relationship between their countries. By agreeing to meet and negotiate, the two leaders implicitly acknowledged that neither side can gain a decisive advantage over the other in the nuclear...