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...like themselves, but most experts acknowledge that the rush of bidders in Romania last year was largely explained by the fact that the children were Caucasian. Some aspiring parents, seeking to adopt in Latin America, prefer to go to Chile rather than, say, Peru or Colombia, because they consider Chilean children more likely to be light skinned and Caucasian-looking...
...notably eased some disasters. Andrew Natsios, director of foreign disaster assistance for the U.S. Agency for International Development, says as many as 350,000 Bangladeshis were saved this time, thanks to a U.S.-built cyclone-warning system. Natsios also points to U.S.-supplied volcano and earthquake monitors and a Chilean tidal-wave-alert network. With satellite analysis of African vegetation, he adds, Washington pre-positioned 30,000 tons of supplies before the famine last year in the Sudan...
Best Wine Buys Alsatian whites and Chilean reds. The fruity, bone-dry Pinot Blancs and Pinot Gris from Alsace are still quality bargains from France. For everyday drinking, Chile's suave, uncomplicated Cabernet Sauvignons couldn't be beat...
...long will the American cultural hegemony last? "I think we are living in a quasi-Hellenistic period," says Chilean philosopher Claudio Veliz, a visiting professor of cultural history at Boston University, who is writing a book on the subject...
...critics in Chile for a government crackdown on Cardoen's operations. The Defense Ministry has stopped the sale of weaponry to Ethiopia but has taken no other action. "Our arms-control law is designed to cover domestic weapons use," says Defense Minister Patricio Rojas. "It doesn't cover Chilean arms exports." The fact is that Cardoen and the post-Pinochet government are quite comfortable with each other. Cardoen contributed $1 million to President Patricio Aylwin's election campaign last year and large sums to several important congressional candidates...