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They range from jackbooted skinhead youths assaulting foreigners in Germany to sedately dressed middle-aged couples dining off lace tablecloths at a banquet outside Amiens -- under a poster urging the eviction of immigrants from France. Their leaders include old nobility, yuppie types, an ex- paratrooper who boasts of being born...
For all that, the continent-wide rise of the right is more a nagging worry than an imminent danger. Even in France or Austria, where right-wing attitudes have enflamed the public debate, heavy majorities of voters want no part of the right as ruler. But the right has shown...
Believe it or not, the White Continent has already been fouled by oil spills and garbage dumps, but efforts are under way to prevent further damage. All but two of the 26 nations that jointly set policy on Antarctica, including the U.S., agreed on a treaty that will ban mining...
Leaders from the Continent criticize Britain as being out of step with the rest of the EC. But everyone recognizes that at the end of the day Prime Minister John Major will shake his partners' hands, whereas his predecessor was far more likely to beat them about the head. The...
For the United Nations' African bloc, the election last week of Egyptian diplomat Boutros Boutros Ghali as the new Secretary-General to succeed the retiring Javier Perez de Cuellar was a semisweet victory. The Africans had engineered their continent's first turn at the helm of the world organization -- and...