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Five years ago, police in the resort town of Wadduwa, Sri Lanka, raided a seaside hotel owned by a German and his Sri Lankan wife. The building was occupied not by tourists but by 20 young Sri Lankan women and their 22 infants, some just a few weeks old. The hotel was a "baby farm," where foreigners looking for children to adopt could come to browse, and for a fee $ of $1,000 to $5,000, have their pick of the babies. The mothers, all desperately poor, would get about $50 in exchange for each of their children...
Time, Newsweek and The New Republic insist on speaking of the election as if it were already over. David Letterman, Jay Leno and Johnny Carson resort to Democratic futility jokes whenever they hit a lull. In The Crimson, ("George Bush and the Seven Dwarves," Sept. 18), Michael R. Grunwald wrote: "Beat Bush/Quayle? The Dems couldn't beat Bush/Hitler...
When Gorbachev and his family went on vacation to the Crimea in early August, Chernyayev, 70, and other members of the presidential staff accompanied them, staying at a health resort called Yuzhny, some seven miles from the presidential compound. During the day, Chernyayev and his team worked in offices just a few yards away from Zarya, the Gorbachevs' dacha; one of their assignments was to help the President put the finishing touches on a speech scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 20, to mark the signing of his cherished union treaty, under which the center would be redefined and significant new powers...
...ethnic and political hostilities that have long festered in many republics beneath a veil of repression, it was inevitable that the breakup of the Soviet Union would quickly unleash unsavory nationalistic forces. Of the many republic presidents now grappling with restive populations, Gamsakhurdia has been among the quickest to resort to authoritarian tactics. On Sept. 2 his interior-ministry troops fired on anti-Gamsakhurdia protesters. The next week Gamsakhurdia jammed all Soviet and Russian broadcasts to the republic. Last week, as some 30 opposition groups brought more than 20,000 people into the streets, police arrested three opposition leaders after...
Serbs and Croatians plainly were not in the mood to stop it. At the meeting Carrington conducted in Igalo, a seaside resort in the small Yugoslav republic of Montenegro, Milosevic and Tudjman glared at each other fiercely and refused to exchange a word. The agreement they signed never had a chance. When he returned to Zagreb, Tudjman fired his defense minister, Luka Bebic, for carrying out the cease-fire's terms prematurely -- and the belligerents leaped at each other again...