Word: hun
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: North Korean officials have refused new offers of food aid for their flood-damaged country, saying they are "disappointed" by the response to their appeal. Even as he praised U.S. efforts, Pak Dok Hun, a North Korean spokesman in Geneva, said that North Korea decided not to request more aid even though the country is gripped by food shortages, and struggling to repair an estimated $15 billion in flood damage. Hun accused "hostile elements" (translation: South Korea) of obstructing aid from the United States and other nations. According to the U.N. Department of Humanitarian Affairs, only...
Still, advocates of youth wilderness camps caution that not all programs are created equal. At their best, the camps combine the physical challenges of an Outward Bound-style experience with counseling to help troubled teens who have not benefited by more traditional intervention. At Camp E-Hun-Tee in Exeter, Rhode Island, which is run by Eckerd Family Youth Alternatives, Inc.-whose 14 camps nationwide are a model for other wilderness programs-at-risk youths spend as long as a year in the woods. "I'd rather be at home," says a 14-year-old E-Hun-Tee camper, whose...
Governor William F. Weld '66 has always had sharp political instincts, but his recent statement of his position on crime--"I'm somewhere to the right of Atilla the Hun"--only demonstrates that he's finally caught up with what the people have been saying for months...
...Atilla the Hun, Ghengis Khan, Tricky Dick, Lorena Bobbitt. No longer the victim, she's now the perpetrator...
...final weeks of the campaign, how to deal with the Khmer Rouge has become the defining issue. Pol Pot's forces say they will not peaceably accept victory by "the Vietnamese aggressors and their puppets." Hun Sen's party has promised to wage an all-out war to eradicate the guerrillas. FUNCINPEC, the opposition party founded by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the country's interim head of state, has pledged to bring them into a coalition government. Sihanouk's eldest son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, argues that with a government dedicated to expelling the Vietnamese and establishing social justice, the Khmer Rouge...