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After the communist regime headed by Erich Honecker collapsed late last year, East Germans were appalled by what they discovered about the lavishly bourgeois life-style that the ousted party boss and his cronies had enjoyed at their well-guarded compound in the Berlin suburb of Wandlitz. Nonetheless, the new leaders in East Berlin have been slow to take legal steps against their predecessors, mainly because they have yet to resolve two difficult but related ethical issues: Who should be judged? Who should do the judging...
...panic intensified last week when Liberian troops invaded a United Nations compound in Monrovia where hundreds of Gio and Mano refugees were seeking protection. One security guard was killed, and as many as 40 refugees were abducted. In response, the U.S. dispatched a six-ship Navy flotilla to stand off the coast to evacuate American citizens if necessary...
Inside a fenced government compound in the heart of Ulan Bator, Mongolia's capital, a traditional felt tent, known as a ger, rests on the concrete square. Inside the ger stands Mandakh Jiguur, 28, an artist who has abandoned his oils and watercolors for a higher calling: private enterprise. Spiritedly, he moves between the eight tables, pushing sausages, vodka and smoldering Mongolian hot pot on his customers. Jiguur heaves a sigh of relief that this day the authorities did not arbitrarily shut down his bar. "One day they tell you to stand up and start a business," says Jiguur...
...years since the U.S.-supported regime folded like a pup tent and the remaining American Marines executed what the tactical instructors at Quantico euphemistically called a "retrograde movement" from the roof of the fortress-like U.S. embassy annex. Today chickens run helter skelter through the American compound...
Other plants in Czechoslovakia are engaged in similar businesses, producing all manner of weaponry and components -- hand grenades, automatic rifles, tanks, armored personnel carriers -- almost all for export. In a high-security compound outside the industrial city of Brno, trainees from such countries as Angola, South Yemen and the People's Republic of the Congo are being drilled in what officials describe as "police methodology and criminology," a euphemism for paramilitary training...