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...while Russia would keep the larger two of Kunashir and Iturup, where most Russians live. Tokyo has rejected the idea, and Yeltsin, fearful of risking the wrath of his Moscow rivals, has been unable to sweeten the deal further. Last week he canceled a trip to Tokyo rather than confront the issue...
...week's end, more than 150 attacks on asylum-seeking foreigners had been registered since the mayhem began. In Ketzin, 10 miles from Berlin, 44 Auslander barely escaped with their lives when the building they inhabited was razed by torch throwers. Official calls for special police powers to confront the skinheads and neo-Nazis did not seem to deter anyone. Although there was no breakdown in civic order, the attacks reached to the front door of the government: right-wingers threw fire bombs at a house of asylum seekers a mile from Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Bonn office...
...Baghdad from bombing the rebels, declaring that any Iraqi fighter crossing south of the 32nd parallel would be shot down. As of week's end allied pilots reported no Iraqi aircraft in the "no-fly zone." Saddam's only comment: "We will choose the appropriate method and timing to confront this unjust, hostile decision...
...avalanche of unsettling images is both revolting and, eventually, redemptive. Bubbies' case of negrophobia forces her to explore the underside of American culture; her trip through a hell of inhuman caricatures forces the reader to confront the ugly, distorted and hateful manner in which Blacks have traditionally been resented in this country...
...going to turn this into a racistproblem," he said. Pasquarello defended hisdecision to confront the mayor at the councilmeeting, saying Reeves' office had "fluffed" himoff when he had attempted to speak to Reevesearlier...