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...Champs de Mars, a grimy street a hundred yards from the National Palace, fills with drunken gunmen and pulsating music with a voodoo beat. Through the hours of darkness cars rumble up to the Normandie Restaurant and the political offices next door. Scores of "attaches," the heavily armed civilian auxiliaries to the police, receive their orders and roar away on the violent and bloody missions that keep the Haitian military regime in power...
Employed or not, Russia's consumers are screaming that prices on basics are too high, and they are right. The problem is that with government funds and workers concentrated in state-controlled industries, production of high- quality civilian goods has not caught up with demand. Nor is it likely to until the factories, farms and retail outlets are privatized -- a process that will take years. Only about 20% of workers are employed in the private sector, and there is evidence most people are not even convinced that privatization is a good idea. In a study by the Russian Center...
...blockade imposed on the Georgian capital of Tbilisi by Gamsakhurdia's rebels, the Abkhazians struck again. Two weeks ago, fighters launched a ferocious attack on Sukhumi. Within 48 hours, surprise had enabled them to seize the heights overlooking the city and pour artillery, mortars and missiles down on the civilian population...
Haiti's new Prime Minister, Robert Malval, reinstated Port-au-Prince's mayor, Evans Paul, despite threats by armed goons, among them civilian police auxiliaries, that they would kill both men if the mayor tried to recover his old job. Paul was ousted along with President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a 1991 military coup. After the mayor's return,the thugs who had seized city hall killed six Aristide supporters. Days later, businessman Antoine Izmery was dragged out of Mass and executed. Aristide is expected to return to power next month...
Less than a week after Nigerian strongman General Ibrahim Babangida stepped down, the country's powerful labor unions called a five-day general strike to protest the new civilian government of Ernest Shonekan, whom many see simply as Babangida's surrogate and pawn. Deepening the crisis, five of the country's 30 state governors have vowed not to recognize Shonekan...