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...prospects for civil order dim, Aideed and the other warlords will reassert themselves, likely causing at least a partial return to preintervention conditions. The terror will return for the Somali people; the horror will return to our TV sets. Then we will have to choose: either turn a cold shoulder, or send back our troops...
Gorbachev knows firsthand what mankind can do to the environment. "I first saw the dangers in Stavropol, where poor farming practices produced sandstorms that carried away topsoil," he said during an interview with TIME. While in the Kremlin, he confronted one horror story after another of skies blackened by smokestacks, rivers ruined by toxic wastes and fields flooded by ill- conceived dams. "Farmers rebelled against these outrages," he said, "but because of the command system, their revolt was not heard." Then came the explosion of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, which "was the final argument. All of us then...
...while he began to reconstruct his own life story, then slowly recite, out loud, each heavily detailed chapter. "This is the verbal autobiography of Harvey Weinstein, aged 6," he intoned as he conjured up the memories of his first-grade teacher and long- forgotten classmates. Sometimes, however, the horror of his predicament got the best of him, and he cried out for his captors to kill him and leave his body on the side of a road so that his children could find it and bury him properly. It was as he struggled against just that degree of despair that...
Shortly after the Fourth of July weekend, 11-year-old Kelly Ahrendt complained to her parents that she did not feel well and was having trouble sleeping. But the Ahrendts, a family of nine living on a small farm in Mamakating, New York, had no real hint of the horror to come. On July 7, Kelly said her knuckles and arm hurt, and the next day was taken to the doctor. According to the family, he thought that some cartwheels she did earlier in the week might have caused the arm pain. As for her other symptoms, the doctor suspected...
This time it might really happen. The vicious 16-month war among hate-filled neighbors that has soaked Bosnia and Herzegovina in blood -- and seared the conscience of the rest of the world -- might be coming to an end. But not because the combatants have seen the horror of their ways or the Western democracies have made justice prevail. If the killing does grind to a stop in the coming weeks, it will be more out of collective exhaustion than the result of any agreements or pressures the politicians are trying to impose...