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Johan Helsingius' personal computer may be the most loathed machine in cyberspace. Cranks routinely E-mail bomb it, trying to level the IBM clone with millions of pages of gibberish. Hot-headed hackers dispatch bit-eating "worm" programs to Helsinki to search for and destroy the computer's precious electronic cargo. A few vengeful folks have even threatened Helsingius himself, for what would the machine be without...
...Friday that he had authorized the army to use "all means at * the state's disposal" to bring the breakaway republic of Chechnya back into the Russian Federation. "The Chechnya question is a Russian internal matter," announced the State Department. But in some American -- especially Republican -- eyes, Russia's dispatch of "peacekeeping" troops to Tajikistan, Georgia and other now independent Soviet republics looks like an attempt to force them back under Moscow's rule. But Russians insist they have a legitimate interest, indeed a duty, to prevent disruption in neighboring countries...
Rightly or wrongly, many Sarajevans lay the blame for the bankruptcy of Balkan policy at the feet of the U.N. and its Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros- Ghali. Their bitterness and desperation are reflected in the following dispatch by TIME contributor Zlatko Dizdarevic, which was translated by Ammiel Alcalay...
...truth is, occasionally, I'm not very smart," Gingrich told Dateline NBC. "I probably need to be 30 percent less pugnacious and 50 less negative." Meanwhile, the first comment's indirect target, former Senator and Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, responded in a column in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I fully welcome the scorn of Gingrich. I have nothing but disdain toward this unscrupulous demagogue . . . In any event, the 'McGoverniks' whom Gingrich fears did not get to the White House in 1972."Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
...setback to several positive developments in recent weeks on the Korean peninsula, Pyongyang has rejected Seoul's offer of investment and direct trade. "Cooperation and confrontation are incompatible," Pyongyang's Central News Agency said in a dispatch. The report was the North's first response to the South Korean initiative for economic cooperation announced Monday after a 50-year hands-off policy. So, while the possibility of direct trade between the two countries appears to be flagging, indirect trade through third parties -- which North Korea hasn't blocked -- is flourishing. In the first eight months of this year, it soared...