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...rationing, decent apartments they do not have to share, jobs that pay adequate salaries. Discontent has not driven Cubans into the streets though: they are too timid or too fearful of an unknown alternative for that. They still do not harbor the loathing for their leaders that finally drove East Europeans into open revolt. "Cubans are always waiting, for someone from the state, from outside, from God, to change their circumstances," says Rolando Suarez, director of the Catholic charity Caritas. "People are not willing to act in their own behalf...
...arts were the engine that drove the magazine," he says...
Kosovo is the historical and cultural homeland of Serbs, and the estimated 100,000 who live there dominate the 2 million ethnic Albanians by force and repression. But that rule is crumbling. During the late-November fire fight that wounded Bahri Krasniqi, rebels drove Serb process servers and their police escorts out of the village. When heavily armed Serb reinforcements returned next day, angry rebels ambushed them outside town and drove them back. Serb authorities have not dared return since, and the shadowy Kosovo Liberation Army (K.L.A.) has rallied to the region and patrols its rural roads by night. Intentionally...
Defenders of the plane argue that's exactly what T-3 training is meant to accomplish. "We don't want to kill people at the Air Force Academy, obviously," McPeak says. "But we drove [Commerce Secretary] Ron Brown and a planeload of VIPs into the hills of Yugoslavia because of pilot error." "We don't want to kill a planeload of people because we haven't properly identified the people who can do this job." Other Air Force officers point out that the plane has flown without an accident at an Air Force base at Hondo, Texas, where the instructors...
...higher winds. As a teenager, Michael jumped off a 75-ft. cliff above the Snake River in Wyoming during a rafting trip. Brother Robert, while at Harvard, leaped 10 feet between two six-story dorms on a dare. He was arrested in 1983 for heroin possession. Joe II drove his jeep off the road in 1973, paralyzing family friend Pam Kelley. Brother David died in 1984 of a drug overdose. It is all more than any family can bear, especially without the abiding solace of martyrdom to some cause greater than a thrill and a game...