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Last week's proceedings bore little resemblance to previous sedition trials in Taiwan, which had been summary affairs, consisting of a reading of the charges, followed inevitably by a verdict of guilty. This time the defendants were represented by a team of able defense lawyers. The chief of the five-member panel of military judges gave the accused ample opportunity to refute charges that they had attempted to overthrow the government with the help of subversive organizations abroad. Some defendants eloquently expressed their aspirations for democratic reform in Taiwan. The island's many daily newspapers were permitted...
...clientele that consists almost entirely of ironworkers employed at T.M.I. "Much ado about nothing," said Charles Hummel, a foreman, as he discussed people's worries about radiation. "The situation was never as bad as the press claimed it was," said a tall, mustachioed man whose T shirt bore an indelicate reference to Iran. "Nobody was killed. Nobody was even hurt...
...more often shunned in favor of the quieter, more civilized capital. The International Communication Agency (the revamped U.S. Information Agency) recently had job openings in both Buenos Aires and Vancouver. Not so many years ago, the Argentine post would have been considered a plum, the Canadian one a backwater bore. This time around, however, there were several dozen applicants for Vancouver and none for Buenos Aires. The reasons: Vancouver is safe and relatively cheap; Buenos Aires has sporadic political violence and triple-digit inflation...
...grassy hill near the southwestern town of Bulawayo lies the tomb of Cecil Rhodes, the English diamond millionaire who took the white man's burden to southern Africa and founded the colony that bore his name. Rhodes, even with his ambitious vision, could never have contemplated a black-ruled Rhodesia with a Shona tribesman at its head. Yet the two leaders had at least one thing in common: each had an almost mystical belief that his personal destiny was intertwined with that of this hauntingly beautiful country. As Robert Mugabe took on the burden of governing and rebuilding that...
...none of his friends. His children had never seen where he worked; it wasn't in a safe part of town, their mother said. Last month's hobby-the restringing of a damaged pawnshop banjo, with an eye to becoming suddenly musical at the age of 42-bore no resemblance to this month's hobby, which was the writing of a science fiction novel that would make him rich and famous. He was writing about the death of earth...