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...Vermont. Ellis' book, set in the affluent Los Angeles suburbs where he grew up, chronicles a few days in the lives of a group of teenagers burned out on sex and drugs. "It can be taken, I guess, as a piece of sociology," he concedes. "A lot of teenagers hunger to be in that kind of group." As for the grownup pressures of his new success, he says straitlacedly, "You just have to keep writing. If you let stuff like that get in your head, you'll never write another word." --By Guy D.Garcia
...Washington on March 1, treks across the flatlands pursued by television cameras, supply trucks and spectators. At the same time, another awesome spectacle is taking shape: from one coast to the other, people are lining up side by side and clasping hands to form a huge human chain against hunger...
...July. The seven claim they were beaten, hooded with plastic bags, dunked in buckets of water containing tear gas and tortured with electric shocks. The case was dismissed on a technicality. Meanwhile, some 200 to 300 detainees being held at prisons in the Cape Town area reportedly began a hunger strike to protest their confinement. VIET NAM A Bid to Break an Impasse...
...China's hunger for resources has also exposed inadequacies in Australia's infrastructure and work practices. Exports could have been even higher. Long queues of ships kept waiting off Dalrymple Bay in Queensland to load coking coal for China symbolize the problems. In this year's iron ore negotiations, Chinese buyers settled for a 71.5% price increase (BHP Billiton, fresh from securing a 25-year supply contract, had sought to double its price via a rise in the freight rate it charges mills). Chinese officials say supply bottlenecks are to blame for the price hikes. Ambassador Fu has raised...
With the exception of Bulgaria, which has strong historic ties to Russia, East bloc attitudes toward the Soviet Union range from distrust to outright loathing, an attitude that stands in sharp contrast to a hunger among East Europeans for most things Western. Through much of the East bloc, youngsters wear blue jeans and dance to Western rock; purple-haired punks are seen in the streets of Warsaw and Budapest. More important, East European governments have turned to the West for the credits and technology that Moscow cannot provide, giving East Europeans a vested interest in the revival of détente...