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SEOUL: With millions of North Koreans on the brink of starvation and South Korea's government being reshuffled, today's peace talks between the two Koreas couldn't come at a more critical time. United Nations relief teams report that North Korea's drought threatens a deadly famine on the scale seen recently in Ethiopia and Somalia. Meanwhile, South Korea's president today ousted half his cabinet, explaining the move as an effort to better manage economic policies and ensure fair presidential elections in December. Breakthroughs are not expected as North and South Korea sit down with China...
SEOUL: With millions of North Koreans on the brink of starvation and South Korea's government being reshuffled, today's peace talks between the two Koreas couldn't come at a more critical time. United Nations relief teams report that North Korea's drought threatens a deadly famine on the scale seen recently in Ethiopia and Somalia. Meanwhile, South Korea's president today ousted half his cabinet, explaining the move as an effort to better manage economic policies and ensure fair presidential elections in December. Breakthroughs are not expected as North and South Korea sit down with China...
When the run was over, the small staff would quiet the press and lift off the lead pages in their steel chases and throw the Linotype slugs into scoops to be reused. There would be quiet talk about the stories in the paper. In the drought years, we wondered if rain would ever come again. In the war years, we marveled at how quickly friends had been shipped around the world to distant battlefields, with only bits and pieces of their censored, yearning letters printed each week...
...company, the pre-eminent African-American dance troupe in the U.S., has visited the African nation, long deprived of access to international artists by the cultural boycott of the old apartheid regime. South African officials hailed the visit as a major event. "This is the end of a long drought," said Johannesburg executive-committee chairman M.C. Matjila after the premiere performance Thursday night in the city's Civic Theater. "We are back in the international arena and able to host world-famous theater groups like this. It gives us pride after what we fought for all these years." Calling...
...tallied the final goal of the day, ending a 17-minute scoring drought. But by then, there was only a 1:30 left to play...