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...East Germany, because West German galleries adored East German Socialist Realism. "We didn't want to show pictures that simply fit into the West's cliché," he says. "We didn't want to exhibit art from the G.D.R. as it had been shown as an export product for the West." Instead, the exhibit begins with a series of dark images, such as sketches of bombed-out Dresden after the war by Wilhelm Rudolph, who wandered among the ruins with notepad in hand. Then there is a collection of formalist drawings and paintings with winding lines and bursts of color...
...refugees. (They already have guarantees of safety in South Korea.) The intent: to encourage the sort of mass exodus from the North that helped bring down East European communist regimes in 1989. At the same time, 10 countries have agreed to join the U.S. in cracking down on the export of weapons technologies from North Korea, and the Administration is trying to stop the North's illegal sales of drugs...
...Muslims who have been aided, spiritually or otherwise, to comment on the effect Christian missionaries have had on their lives. Freedom of religion does not exist in many nations within the Muslim world. Something is truly amiss when the U.S. is accused of religious imperialism while other countries export tyrannical Islam. JUSTIN M. STEVENS Palatine...
...Southeast Asia's largest flower farm, Dalat Hasfarm, thrives in Vietnam's central highlands, producing 500,000 stems a day for export. But the farm's 300 flower varieties aren't all that's blossoming in the cool mountain clime. In downtown Dalat, love is almost always in the air. Dalat has evolved into Vietnam's honeymoon capital. At hot spots like the scenic Valley of Love park and crescent-shaped Xuan Huong Lake, you'll find a lot of Disneyesque diversion, such as swan-shaped paddleboats. They may not be to everyone's taste, but there's no denying...
...real end user. As a Western diplomat notes, a machine for freeze-drying coffee can also be used to make anthrax spores. Says Akio Igarashi of the Tokyo-based watchdog Center for Information on Security Trade Control: "With North Korea you don't know if a lunch box you export will end up as a container for nuclear material...