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Quick, who killed more than 10,000 people last year and drove millions more from their homes? The answer begins with an M... Nope, it wasn?t Slobodan Milosevic; it was a hurricane with the easygoing moniker of Mitch. In fact, more people were turned into refugees by Mother Nature in 1998 than by wars and other conflicts, according to the International Red Cross World Disasters Report 1999. The report says that violent weather episodes from China and India through the Philippines and Central America killed 20,000 people and impacted dramatically on the lives of some 250 million others...
...come. "The impact of climate change brought on by global warming is being multiplied by problems such as poverty, population growth and new antibiotic-resistant diseases," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Honduran and Nicaraguan urban shanty dwellers were more vulnerable to the flooding caused by Hurricane Mitch than were their middle-class neighbors, while the burden of last year?s harsh Northern Hemisphere winter was heaviest for the 44 million Russians who live in poverty. "Even greater calamities are looming on the horizon, and the global impact of problems such as disease make it unwise...
...Hill. Republicans are in such a hurry to embarrass their draft-dodging President next week by approving $13 billion in military spending when Clinton asked for only $6 billion, they're ready to settle up another tab: $2.4 billion, mostly aid to Central America for the victims of Hurricane Mitch...
...Senate, however, was a different matter. The ultimate country-club, the Senate is dominated by those politicians who know who how to manipulate the system best. Many of them, rich from large campaign war-chests and PAC money, staunchly refuse to change it. Among these is hawkish Sen. Mitch McConnel (R-KY), head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. As the dispenser of funds for Republican candidates across the country, the anti-reform McConnell took money away from Republicans who supported McCain-Feingold, like Washingtonian Linda Smith (who lost her Senate race), and gave them to candidates who could take...
...favor of Kazan's honorary Oscar. Schickel stated that Kazan's films are so good that they cancel out his misdeeds, saying history resists easy moralizing. The right argument is that Oscar should be about great art and cinematic achievement, and Kazan deserves the Oscar for that reason. MITCH GART Bedford, Mass...