Word: aides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into the U.S. Embassy and demanded asylum. Just as inevitably, says Waller, the North Koreans will be back. "They've stalled these talks before." Eventually, he says, Pyongyang will decide that the four-party talks are in its interest ? and though it may sting the national pride, only foreign aid can quiet the rumbling of North Korea's stomach...
International aid organizations are always alarmist, but they warn that based on their fragmented evidence, 2 million to 5 million people could starve to death. U.N. agencies and independent groups say 70% of this year's corn crop is lost, and half the nation's grain supply consists of corn. Jin Zhe, a shopkeeper in Yanji, a Chinese border city, visited her relatives' village in North Korea three months ago. "No one in the whole village worked," she says. "There was nothing to do, and people were too weak to work...
...their "arduous march," allowing for no discussion of the possibility that years of Stalinist economic policies may have caused the famine. Yet at the same time, there is acknowledgment that something dramatic must happen. Says relief official Jong Yun Hyong: "We know we can't rely on emergency aid forever." Even to march in place, you need food...
Elderly residents are sometimes the target of home-repair scams. "These people are cash poor but real estate rich," says Frederick Arriaga, a lawyer with Legal Aid in New York. Their houses, however, may be old and in need of repair. One three-story row house in Brooklyn, N.Y., was bought for $25,000 in 1968 by Warren Singleton, a safety officer at a public school, and his wife Minnie, a health-care assistant. They hoped it would yield enough rental income to support their retirement. After bad tenants just about wrecked the two top floors, Minnie responded...
Sitting ringside at the Tyson-Holyfield bout in June apparently gave Christian Slater all the wrong ideas. The toothsome actor turned downright mean at an L.A. party, allegedly punching his girlfriend and biting a man who tried to come to her aid. Facing possible charges of assault, Slater later issued a statement expressing regret about the incident...