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...horribly sad. The people of Liberia have been pleading for outside help to stop the chaotic civil war that since June has killed over 1,000 civilians. And last week help was supposed to arrive - not the 2,300 U.S. Marines on the three gunships expected off the Liberian coast last weekend (they as yet have no orders to come ashore), but an African peacekeeping force, known as ECOMOG, from the Economic Community of West African States. But last Wednesday, when an advance team of 10 military advisers finally set off for a fact-finding mission to the Liberian capital...
...heard such earnest declarations before. The last big blaze to ravage their place, in 1990, turned a beloved 300-year-old umbrella pine into a stump. The Vérets made the best of it, using it as a natural bench for taking in the stunning view of the coast. This fire obliterated even the stump. The Vérets take no comfort in knowing that the view won't be what it was for years to come...
...future of the troubled German beer industry, it would have to be the New York-born Eisenbeiss (his parents emigrated to the U.S.). He and his sister share a 48% stake in the company that sells more beer to Germans than anyone else - Holsten, on Germany's north coast. Eisenbeiss believes a modern brewer needs to be big - Holsten already serves up 1 billion liters a year - and international. Sailer and his brother, Dietrich, by contrast, own and operate the small but thriving Hofbräuhaus Traunstein in southern Germany, which brews 10 million liters of beer annually. For centuries...
...sort of help that is, with all due respect." And the fact that the U.S. has a fire engine and a corps of firefighters whose capabilities dwarf those of everyone else in the neighborhood makes it difficult to insist on playing second fiddle. Once U.S. troops are off the coast of Monrovia, the political pressure on Washington to send them ashore is likely to grow exponentially...
Every summer, as the hordes amass along France's Mediterranean coast, savvy travelers head southwest to the Atlantic and the relative quiet of the Bay of Biscay. There, in the region known as Basque Country, flat beaches give way to the soaring Pyrenees, which separate France and Spain. Those willing to forgo the glitz of the Cote d'Azur will be rewarded with splendid outdoor activities, including some of the best fly fishing to be found...