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...torrent of news about the California earthquake, the victims of another huge natural disaster on the opposite coast have been all but forgotten. Though the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Hugo when it smashed into South Carolina six weeks ago did not equal the damage caused by the tremor, it was by far the most destructive storm in U.S. history. In South Carolina alone, it killed 18 people, severely damaged or obliterated more than 36,000 homes, wiped out crops valued at $50 million and knocked down trees worth $1 billion. All told, property damage in the 24-county region that...
Licking their chops at Americans' growing taste for game, restaurants are now serving more of it than ever before. Food Arts, a magazine for professional chefs and restaurateurs, puts game high on its list of gastronomically fashionable items this fall. Four years ago, the Zagat survey could name just 13 New York City restaurants that served game; today there...
...suppliers and game farms have sprung up across the country to meet the demand for everything from antelope to zebra. D'Artagnan in Jersey City sells two kinds of venison and four different varieties of duck, as well as fresh grouse, wood pigeon and pheasant from Scotland. Five years ago, D'Artagnan was pulling in $500,000 annually; this year it will do $7 million in business...
Although Sofia's police were frightened enough to rough up Ecoglasnost, which has just 101 members, Bulgarians have no modern model for revolt. That, ironically, might make gradual change easier. Czechoslovakia has such a model -- 1968's Prague Spring -- and authorities there are taking no chances. Two weeks ago, they arrested Jiri Ruml and Rudolf Zeman, well-known editors of the underground opposition newspaper Lidove Noviny. More than 100 journalists, most of them government employees, have since signed a petition calling for the release of the pair and for the immediate legalization of the newspaper. Now the government is hounding...
...wasn't it just two weeks ago that East German President Egon Krenz said he would not include opposition groups in a national dialogue? Last week a member of the East German Politburo met with the largest reform group to hear its ideas...