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The Communist Party newspaper Pravda pinpointed yet another reason for the empty store shelves. In a story accompanied by photos showing tons of consumer goods -- from TV sets to champagne to vegetables -- piled uselessly in railroad stations around Moscow, Pravda left the impression that the backup was caused by sabotage...
It took some gunboat diplomacy to bring the area under British sovereignty. The Treaty of Nanking in 1842 ended the First Anglo-Chinese War and transferred Hong Kong to the crown. In 1898 the mainland region later known as the New Territories was added under the 99-year lease agreement...
After more than a dozen books and scores of travel articles, Morris remains unjaded by the noise and disruption of urban life. She is certainly a believer in possibilities (see Conundrum, her 1974 account of the medical and psychological sex-change procedures that turned James Morris into Jan Morris). It...
Elsewhere Dignity is struggling to cope. A New York City chapter has been split over one faction's marches and disruption of Masses at St. Patrick's Cathedral to protest the tough new church line. Some chapters have found priests willing to celebrate Masses quietly in non-Catholic buildings, but...
The mujahedin will need all their reserves next spring, when the end of winter will signal the final push on Kabul. Massoud told TIME he intends to cut off major highways into the capital, then take on outlying garrisons. At the same time, he plans to launch a campaign of...