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...dangerous new escalation of the risk to NATO forces in the region. With Yugoslavia now ruled by a democratic nationalist regime more acceptable to the West, many in NATO would plainly be more comfortable having Yugoslav troops facing off against the insurgents than with putting Western troops in harm...
...Taiwan Relations Act, to ensure the island's ability to defend itself. In 1996 that commitment brought Washington and Beijing to the precipice of confrontation, after President Clinton moved a naval battle group into the Taiwan Strait to avert an invasion. But the prospect of putting U.S. forces into harm's way on China's doorstep has never been an appealing one, which fuels the argument in Washington for enhancing Taiwan's own ability to defend itself. But Beijing is insisting that it would be forced to up the ante if Washington upgrades Taiwan's defenses. And so the bidding...
...Four of the opposition party's political heavyweights, including the leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, are also due to appear in court on charges of incitement in calling for a popular movement to oust Mugabe, and the government has said it would seize passports of critics whose statements or actions harm Zimbabwe's image abroad. "It's all part of an evil program to undermine political rights and gag us ahead of the presidential elections," says Welshman Ncube, the MDC secretary-general...
...communication which we print this morning shows the feeling that exists in the University towards such outages as the blowing up of the Yard pump. If the disapproval of the undergraduate body could be given as wide publicity as the act which aroused it, much of the harm done to the best interests of the University would be remedied. But in actual experience this has rarely been possible. The act of one thoughtless individual invariably creates a prejudice against the whole University of which he is a member, and, in the case of those newspaper readers who are unfamiliar with...
...parent's house, on a mattress laid on the floor next to his beloved Honda, Big and his friends are smoking yaba and there suddenly seems very little difference between his crowd and Jacky's. "Smoking once in a while, on weekends, that really won't do any harm," Big explains, exhaling a plume of white smoke. "It's just like having a drink." But it's Thursday, I point out. Big shrugs, waving away the illogic of his statement, the drug's powerful reach pulling him away from the need to make sense. He says whatever he wants...