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...buyers included Poles, Germans and Russians. The disclosure of the six-day-old arrests gave Moscow brief cover as officials from Germany, the U.S. and other Western countries demanded cooperation on tracking smugglers and securing nuclear power plants. Meanwhile, persistent Russian denials that any nuclear material came from the motherland sounded hollower. Euratom, the agency that keeps tabs on the 300 tons of plutonium officially in the European Union, traced a cache of plutonium seized in Germany to Russian military sites...
...Nasrin announces in her preface, and that is about as subtle as Shame ever gets. Even though they have lived there for generations, the Duttas seem to have dropped into Bangladesh from Mars, so alien does the specter of sectarian violence from neighboring Muslims strike them. "Why was his motherland turning her back on him?" Suranjan wonders, lolling in bed. Only Nilanjana displays some apprehension of reality: "She was thinking that no one seemed to realize that something had to be done before something awful happened to all of them...
...England, the rain more forceful and abundant. The jungle teems with life, and the knee-deep mud threatens to hold the inhabitants fast. The majority of the colonists attempt to barricade against the overwhelming fecundity of the land, closing ranks and trying to maintain the forms of the English motherland. Only Baines and Ada meet the challenges posed by their surroundings. There is a passion in their in their characters which rises up to meet the passion of the nature around them...
...international focus is on keeping up the diplomatic pace. American envoy Charles Redman plans to sit down with Bosnian and Croat leaders to decide how much territory they will ask the Serbs to cede and what relationship the Serbs will have with their motherland. The Bosnian Serbs have been backing away from their previous willingness to hand over enough land to provide the Muslims and Croats with 50% of the country...
...monitors of Asia Watch reported last month, "political repression is increasing, not decreasing, and it extends to virtually every province in China." Unofficial political and religious activity is illegal, and thousands are in prison for vaguely defined "counterrevolutionary" crimes like subverting the government or splitting the motherland. Detainees are held in prolonged isolation, and many are mistreated or tortured to force confessions...