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"Here we are! Hooray!" Those were modest words for a momentous achievement. They came in a radio message from a six-man team of adventurers and scientists that reached the South Pole last week after a 3,213-km (1,992-mile) trek across Antarctica by dogsled. The expedition was...
In September a blizzard with winds of up to 160 kph (100 m.p.h.), temperatures as low as -43 degrees C (-45 degrees F) and wind chill of -79 degrees C (-110 degrees F) kept the team tent-bound for 13 days. Said Steger when he reached the Patriot Hills campsite...
The ramifications of this possibility are so serious that they ought to worry the West more than they do. Would a complete Soviet collapse, after all, be a good or a bad thing?
A total collapse of the Soviet Union might create almost as many global problems as it solved. Regional despotisms like Fidel Castro's Cuba or Najibullah's Afghanistan would probably wither quickly, as might many Third World Communist insurgencies. The U.S. economy would benefit handsomely from vastly reduced defense expenditures...
Chile's long democratic tradition was finally back on track last week after a 16-year hiatus. In the first presidential election since the bloody 1973 coup that ousted Marxist Salvador Allende Gossens and brought General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte to power, voters elected Patricio Aylwin, 71, a Christian Democrat. As...