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...emigrants settled in the area of Nelson, a town on the northern coast of New Zealand’s south island. Similar communities had already been established near the town, including groups of conscientious objectors who moved to the region before World...
...second career in literature. He has published seven novels since Lies in 1991, including Mistlers’ Exit, The Man Who Was Late, and About Schmidt—all of which, Begley says, he wrote in the evening hours and over weekends in his country home on Long Island...
...psychology of caution over the use of force as an important goal if the confrontation with communism was to be pursued. He bombed Libya in 1986 after determining that it had authored a terror attack on U.S. servicemen in Berlin, and sent U.S. troops to invade the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada and topple its leftist government as a warning to others in the region to avoid drawing too close to the Soviets and Cuba. There were setbacks, of course - the 1983 bombing by Hezbollah of a Marine barracks in Beirut that saw 241 U.S. soldiers killed, and prompted...
...common ground. There's no better place to start the search than Normandy, and no better time than now. The allies meet three times in the next month, not only for mood music in France but also for substance at a g-8 summit on Sea Island, GA., and again at a NATO meeting in Istanbul. George Robertson, the British former NATO secretary-general, says that "with everyone in the same room at the same time, they won't be able to run away from the problems." Don't expect a Marshall Plan for the Middle East...
...vaccines are given separately. For those visiting locales where malaria is a concern, the latest antimalarial treatments have fewer annoying side effects like nightmares, nausea, sun sensitivity and headache, says Dr. Carol Singer, chief of the infectious diseases division and director of the travel immunization center at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park...