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BLACK EYE. Dim days on the private-investigator scene: a shamus named Stone, cashiered from the force for strangling a dope dealer with his bare hands, lights out after a kinky killer who has disposed of the whore upstairs. Stone (Fred Williamson), who is black, is helped along by a...
In the Sahel, that time has already come. For the past six years, the 25 million farmers and nomads fatalistically accepted each dry season, expecting that rains would soon follow. They never did. Crops withered, grazing land turned barren, and lakes and wells dried up. Many Africans became so hungry...
One nation that still refuses to permit the tours is China, whose leaders have unpleasant memories of the Emperor's war machine at work, and may not want to encourage anything that smacks of resurgent Japanese militarism. But the pilgrimages are far from chauvinistic because the groups do not...
In Ethiopia, famine in Welo and Tigre provinces left nearly 100,000 dead last year; some people were so weakened that when a rainstorm struck Dese, the capital of Welo, they drowned in a couple of inches of water, unable to raise their heads from the gutter. Now the drought...
Other discoveries include an early Christian basilica more than 200 feet long, 40 graves dug into the ruins of the church, and important sculptures of the Lydians, rulers of the ancient city.