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Tutsi-led rebels appeared to have secured their grip on Rwanda. In the capital, Kigali, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) worked to set up a multiethnic government to rival the Hutu-dominated government, whose officials fled to a corner of the Central African country. U.S. State Department sources told TIME Washington correspondent Ann Simmons that the RPF decided to set up a coalition government because the rebels don't have the numerical strength to run the country alone. "But not everyone's going to take too kindly to it," Simmons added. "A lot of Tutsi have had their families killed...
South African students may get their first official introduction to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution next year, thanks to curriculum reforms under the new, black-led government. Incredibly, Darwin's century-old grip on schools around the world never took hold in South Africa, where Dutch-descended white Afrikaners considered evolution too controversial for their Christian-based curriculum. TIME Johannesburg bureau chief ScottMacLeod says today's announcement, the de facto abandonment of a state religion, capped five years of subtle changes to break with the Afrikaner culture and symbols. "Lots of little things were done," MacLeod says. "They stopped...
...other end of the tally, Britain's conservative John Major lived fully down to expectations, as his Tories plunged to 27% of the popular vote, their worst showing ever. When the final total came in, the Conservatives had lost nearly half their Euro-seats, further weakening Major's grip on the party leadership...
Twenty years ago in Bucharest, the United Nations World Population Conference produced a wish list of things governments might do to get a grip on population: improve the status of women, expand access to health care, alleviate poverty. With the notable exception of Africa, the world has made progress in these areas: infant mortality has declined, as has the percentage of people who live in abject poverty, and the Green Revolution has improved the diet of hundreds of millions of people...
...more complex than most: she is an ethnic Chinese in "white ghost" America, a protofeminist woman caught between two male-dominated cultures, a natural writer in English whose parents are literate only in Chinese. In addition to being captivated by folk mythology, she is, like most writers, in the grip of intense family mythology -- about an aunt shamed to suicide by giving birth to a bastard, about uncles murdered by communists who then arrogantly urge her father, safely in America, to "donate" the dead men's lands. These stories clearly indicated to young Kingston that America was better than China...