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Spaniard Miguel Indurain on Sunday achieved what only two other cyclists have: a fourth consecutive Tour de France victory. Indurain survived a grueling, 3,978-km Tour that saw almost half the original 189 contestants drop out because of heat and exhaustion. BEAU GESTE: A surprise for those who yawned...
The possibility of confrontation will increase sharply when the foreign troops push inland toward the famine belt. The situation to the south, in Kismayu, was grim. Sixty people were killed last week during clashes between two local factions, and all but a handful of relief workers had to be evacuated...
The international relief group Medecins sans Frontieres has submitted a report to the U.N. citing 10 areas around the world in which entire populations are at "immediate risk" from famine, war, disease or displacement.
Yet France's seat as one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council still gives the country a leverage in world affairs far beyond that of Germany, Japan or Italy. The seat explains why Mitterrand insists that any new security arrangements for the Middle East must gain...
Even though the U.N. is theoretically above politics, reformers are far from unanimous about using it. The track record is not encouraging. Notes Francois Dumaine, a logistics expert for the French volunteer medical team Medecins sans Frontieres: "It takes the U.N. a month and sometimes longer to organize rescue operations...