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Standing on the brink of progress (or at least of the 20th century), the Fly Club faltered--and then displayed its true, unflattering colors...
...where the bodies of U.S. servicemen and women killed overseas are taken; the test is to explain to grieving family members why their loved ones had to be brought home in flag- draped coffins. The President could claim that by displaying firmness and consistency and pushing right to the brink of invasion, he had finally scared Cedras and colleagues into a peaceful departure...
Castro primarily has himself to blame for Cuba's current travails. Some reforms he instituted since mid-1993 had begun to pull the country back from the brink of disaster after the collapse of the Soviet bloc cut Moscow's aid from a torrent to a trickle and then to nothing. When he legalized individual private business last September, Havana suddenly sprouted plumbers, hairdressers, restaurateurs, repairmen and other overnight entrepreneurs permitted to work for themselves. But the July 1993 legalization of dollar holdings was a two-edged sword. It brought much needed hard currency into Cuba, but also split what...
...developed during the last year, the largest number reported in any 12-month period. The gloomy stats were given at the 10th International AIDS Conference in Yokohama, where much of the attention is focused on the Asian epidemic, which accounted for one-third of all new cases. On the brink of mass infection, say health officials: India, Thailand and Burma. The disease is reported to have plateaued in many Western countries, including the U.S. Worldwide, the disease has infected 17 million...
When it was all over, when the slow-motion chase ended in his driveway and night fell with the news that he was in custody, there was a national sigh of relief: O.J., still our O.J., had been pulled back from the brink of suicide; he was safe; it was over. The L.A.P.D., which earlier in the day had looked like Keystone Kops, accepted laurels for patience and restraint. It had been a day full of incipient violence, but as more than one commentator was heard to say at the end of it all, "at least no one was hurt...