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Some of the townspeople are beginning to build makeshift homes out of shreds. Mohammad Sharif, a farmworker, managed to find enough of the pieces of his old hut to build a two-story shack for his nine-member family. Its two decks are just cubicles really, 4 ft. by 7 ft., with 4-ft. ceilings. There is no door, so when the rains blow in at night, the family is soaked...
...money is for a new building to replace the 50-year-old Quonset hut in which the Parliament of the Solomon Islands has been meeting. Solarz says the building will give "tangible support for democracy in that part of the world." A noble purpose, but why was the appropriation tucked into a spending bill titled "Procurement for the United States Navy"? Solarz's explanation: he considers the new building to be a monument to the American G.I.s who perished in the World War II battle of Guadalcanal...
...would be hard pressed to find a grass-thatched hut in Tahiti's capital city, Papeete ("Pa-pey-ey-tey"). With its department stores, street traffic and air pollution, Papeete would resemble a medium-sized midwestern American city if it weren't for all the tour-company vans lined up on the main street...
Born within 30 days of each other in 1931, the two men could scarcely be more different in background and personality. Yeltsin's childhood was a grim struggle for survival in a one-room communal hut in the Ural industrial town of Sverdlovsk. At six, he was looking after his two siblings, boiling potatoes and washing dishes. "It was a fairly joyless time," he recalls, possibly also because his father frequently thrashed him with a leather belt...
...grew up in a culture soaked in conspiracy. Living impoverished, in a mud hut, he witnessed a world up for grabs. Power was being abandoned or ceded by the colonialist overlords. Along with a shared anti-Western pan-Arabism, most Arabs of the 1930s and '40s had the old loyalties, to family, tribe and religion. In the fresh air of change, these mixed explosively, perhaps nowhere more so than in Iraq, which after independence in 1932, for three decades * experienced bloody and repeated coups and countercoups. The upheavals ceased in 1968, when the Baath Party won power and installed...