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Other accomplishments of Ogata during herthree-year tenure include forming a plan forWestern nations to share the burden of the Haitianrefugee crisis, studying starvation in six Africancountries and tackling human rights issues in Iraqand Burma...
...Wallenberg's situation at this very moment. While we live in safety with the prospect of a comfortable life ahead of us, the world around us is filled with the evil; from Bosnia to the Sudan to Burma, millions still suffer...
Bangkok -- DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the leader of the Burmese democracy movement, has been held under house arrest by the military government in Burma for more than four years. Last week, when she was allowed to break her silence and meet with U.S. Congressman Bill Richardson of New Mexico, human rights wasn't the only thing on her mind. "She asked me if I thought Michael Jordan was going to make it as a baseball player," says Richardson. "We made a friendly bet -- she bet that he would make...
...nothing did the Tower of Babel collapse. As national borders fall, tribal alliances, and new manmade divisions, rise up, and the world learns every day terrible new meanings of the word Balkanization. And while some places are wired for international transmission, others (think of Iran or North Korea or Burma) remain as isolated as ever, widening the gap between the haves and the have- nots, or what Alvin Toffler has called the "fast" and the "slow" worlds. Tokyo has more telephones than the whole continent of Africa...
...example, Jones advocated maintaining tariffs on Burma. "[Tariffs] won't have any economic impact," she said, "but they serve to deny Burma international legitimacy...