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...Cameroon, Kenya, Liberia, Morocco, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Swaziland, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), where there are decidedly, as Gaddafi would put it, different styles of "democracy." Perhaps that assessment will even include Libya, where Gaddafi came to power in a 1969 military coup, rules by decree and has never had a democratic election...
...last vestiges of romance-the promise of adventure and freedom, a setting for emotional reunions and teary farewells. Over the years the flying public, in exchange for low fares and frequent service, has learned to put up with a lot-overcrowded hubs, vanishing airline meals and that great marketing coup of the late 20th century, the nonrefundable airline ticket. But after Sept. 11, all the old complaints about air travel were suddenly rendered moot. Airports are now high-stress zones where only two issues really matter: Is it safe to fly, and can it be made safe without turning...
...premier productions of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending (1957) and Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms (1952), along with the 1984 revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which starred Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich. DIED. DOBRI DZHUROV, 86, reformist communist general who participated in the coup that overthrew Bulgarian dictator Todor Zhivkov in 1989, bringing democracy to the former Soviet satellite; in Sofia. Dzhurov was Bulgarian Defense Minister for 28 years before becoming a lawmaker in 1990. DIED. J. CARTER BROWN, 67, former director of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, who oversaw the construction...
...corporations for the "blood and misery" the companies allegedly caused by doing business with South Africa's apartheid regime. The plaintiffs said Citigroup, UBS and Credit Suisse profited from loans to Pretoria between 1985 and 1993 while a U.N. embargo on trade with South Africa was in force. VENEZUELA Coup Fear President Hugo Chávez warned against fresh attempts to topple his government as police arrested a retired colonel who led a march through Caracas demanding Chávez's resignation. MEANWHILE Doomed Love Songs The loudest love songs in the ocean, sung by its largest animals, may soon...
...first harsh taste of international capitalism" and that, 100 years later, Pinochet's "refinement of the recipe" ended up "passing the flavor back" in the form of free-market Thatcherism. But Beckett takes no more than a fleeting glimpse at the U.S., which played a central role in the coup in which Chile's democratically elected Marxist President, Salvador Allende Gossens, died. Chile is still coming to terms with the horrors that followed. While Pinochet, now 86, has been deemed - in both Britain and Chile - too ill to face trial, activists still call for Henry Kissinger to be prosecuted...