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...malnutrition, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders, or msf), the sole relief group in the village. There is a row of freshly dug graves under the trees on the edge of Dubie's biggest refugee camp. "Essentially people are dying of starvation," says Delfin Kapia, a medic for msf, as he struggles to inject antibiotics into a six-month-old boy weighing just 4.6 kg. The following day, Dubie's first food delivery since January arrived. The U.N. truck convoy had taken nearly four weeks to traverse 480 km of dirt track. Despite...
...best to stop the terrorist attacks? National Police Superintendent Robert Delfin is surprisingly optimistic. "No matter the extent of their network, we can monitor them. We know the personalities." Parouk Hussin, Governor of the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao, is less sanguine. "Personalities may come and go," he warns. "The idea's harder to kill." By Nelly Sindayen/Manila...
...crowds chanted "Elian will not leave" and talked about using women and children as human shields. But Juan Miguel was not in the mood to talk to his son's "kidnappers." He and his family went sightseeing. On the phone Friday night, according to Craig, Juan Miguel told Uncle Delfin Gonzalez that no big family meeting was possible until Lazaro takes Elian by the hand, brings him to Juan Miguel and says, "Here's your...
...future in a family discussion without lawyers or government officials. But this dispute has, from the beginning, been about members of a family finding themselves on opposite sides of a four-decade-old war, and so much bad blood has passed between Juan Miguel and his uncles Lazaro and Delfin over the past four months that a simple family reunion looks to be an unlikely scenario. (An emotional Juan Miguel, two months ago, told an interviewer that he'd like to go to Miami to resolve the matter - with a rifle...
...Philippines, Delfin Go and Richard Fernandez were at opposite ends of a sharply divided political spectrum. Go, a member of President Ferdinand Marcos's Management Staff, researched economic issues and policy alternatives for government ministers. Fernandez, a union organizer and development specialist, was held for several months in a military detention center without charges in 1976. At the Kennedy School of Government, where they are part of a growing group of foreign students. Go and Fernandez air their divergent views over coffee. While they two remain ideological foes, the contact the School provides has made them personal friends...