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...from the Federation UKRAINE Kuchma in a Corner At least 2,000 people took to the streets of the capital Kiev demanding the resignation of President Leonid Kuchma, accused of corruption and involvement in the killing of a reporter. Opposition leaders occupied Kuchma's administrative building and began a hunger strike. Kuchma also faces trouble abroad: the U.S. accused him of having sold radar systems to Iraq, contravening U.N. sanctions. see also: TIME's Ukraine Archive IVORY COAST Saved From The Crossfire French troops rescued 160 schoolchildren from a rebel-held city after a military uprising turned into a civil...
...July, Zhang, a 26-year-old grad student at Beida University who had helped organize the hunger strikes on the square, was one of the last activists at-large. He was being sheltered by friends and relatives in his native Heilongjiang province. But the Public Security Bureau was determined to smoke out the remaining rebels, and Zhang's arrest was made a top priority. He hid in a cellar beneath an uncle's home, then fled for the Soviet border. Later, he heard that a furious official had given a tacit shoot-to-kill order...
...answers to the questions that bedevil society and recognize that our professors don’t entirely either. Our futures are shrouded in uncertainty. Specifically, liberal need to understand that conservatives often, though not always, have the same ultimate moral goals as (many) liberals (e.g., equality of opportunity, minimize hunger, etc.) but take different routes to those goals. Conservatives need to appreciate that sometimes, though it might be difficult to believe, liberals come to their beliefs after plenty of hard thinking about an issue...
...that raunch has driven away some viewers and their wallets. The result is less a return to the paternalistic family hour than a recognition that the family viewing audience still exists, as one niche among many. And one series that TV's moneymen believe will cash in on the hunger for wholesome is the WB's Everwood (Mondays, 9 p.m. E.T.). New York City neurosurgeon Andrew Brown (Treat Williams) is obsessed with his career until his wife dies in a car crash on her way to their son's piano recital, which Brown was too busy to attend. The doctor...
...former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ended the portion of their case dealing with the massacres and forced deportation of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Prosecutors believe their circumstantial evidence against Milosevic will secure his conviction. TURKEY Fatal Protest A woman prisoner became the 65th person to die in a hunger strike protesting the conditions under which political prisoners are held in Turkey's maximum security jails. Hamide Ozturk, 32, died in hospital in Istanbul; she had been serving a 12-year sentence for membership in the banned Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, a violent far-left group. The wave...