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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite President Clinton's pledge last week that the government would pick up 100% of the immediate emergency disaster costs, not the customary 75%, other Grand Forks residents may not be able to rebuild their homes and businesses for years, and thousands could be out of work indefinitely. On the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRAND FORKS: THE CITY THAT WOULDN'T DROWN | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

It was still a risk. The assault could have turned into a bloody disaster. But it didn't. It was a triumph--for Fujimori and for his much criticized military. Only 15 minutes after the commandos blasted and shot their way into the building, 71 of the hostages were free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW THEY DID IT | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

At a Huich'on kindergarten in central North Korea, the starving children appear almost skeletal. Nurses in Pyongyang hospitals can see their breath because the buildings have no heat. U.S. Congressman Tony Hall, on a visit to North Korea, spotted a teenage girl, so malnourished she looked like a six...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: READY TO IMPLODE? | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Enough of a disaster to topple its 49-year-old communist regime? Or to scare its reclusive "Dear Leader," Kim Jong Il, into a last-gasp invasion of South Korea? Last week Hwang Jang Yop, the highest-ranking North Korean official ever to defect to the South, rattled nerves with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: READY TO IMPLODE? | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

It even looked as if this season would bring another of those old-fashioned megabudget bombs of Broadway legend. What else could one expect from a $10 million musical called Titanic, based on everybody's favorite sea disaster and seemingly headed for a similar catastrophe, after some well-publicized technical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRING IN 'DA TUNESMITHS | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

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