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...many East Germans, Rumanians and Bulgarians seem to be growing more restive, more insistent in their demands. Their sights are often set, as they were in East Berlin, on the efforts of Communist officeholders to cling to their old jobs, or to any jobs. Yet the protesters also seem intent on bringing about open confrontations, and this has thrown into question just how orderly life in these countries will remain...
...escaped blame for the murder of his wife and soon-expected child. Stuart guessed correctly that the majority of white society would accept the fact that a Black man killed an innocent white woman without question. More than that, he knew that the majority of whites would be so intent on immediate retribution that they wouldn't closely investigate his story...
...millions of malnourished Ethiopians and Sudanese from the food that could save their lives is a handful of stubborn men: President Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia, Lieut. General Omar Hassan el Bashir, the head of Sudan's 15-man junta, and the rebel leaders opposing them. All are more intent upon winning their wars than feeding the people they are supposedly fighting for. "If people die this time, it is not going to be because of the drought but because of the military and political situation," says Father Michael Schultheis, an American Jesuit based in Nairobi...
...Pascal Chesnais, an MIT research specialistwho first spotted the virus at that school, saidthe virus "was more of a nuisance than a thingthat was criminal in intent...
Plans to resist the U.S. invasion had called for the P.D.F. to break up into small groups and conduct a guerrilla war. But Noriega from the first was too intent on saving his own skin to give his followers any direction. Shortly before the invasion, U.S. intelligence claims to have sighted Noriega at an officers' club at the international airport. Noriega, however, had an advance intimation of the attack. As an old intelligence operative, he could hardly have missed the cargo planes ferrying troops and equipment into American military bases. He took off for five days of scuttling around Panama...