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...damage was difficult to assess because the islands are isolated and lack an airstrip. Initial fears for the safety of the islands' population of 3,000 seemed unfounded when the first contact with Tikopia, by helicopter, discovered that all of the islanders had survived by sheltering in mountain caves. Regional leaders criticized the Solomon Islands government for its slow response to the calamity. The first relief boat was due to arrive a week after the cyclone had struck. VENEZUELA Street Fight At least two people were shot to death and dozens injured as fighting erupted in the capital, Caracas, between...
...Congressman Cheney in 1983, five years after his first heart attack and a year before his second, catapulting down a treacherous ski slope in Jackson Hole, Wyo., his red scarf flapping in the breeze behind him, as his fellow skiers watched in stunned admiration from the top of the mountain. "That was the real Dick Cheney. He's not this quiet, laid-back guy," says a politician who has served and vacationed with him. "Inside, this is a guy who takes risks and is very aggressive...
...such as general assistance to individual Indians and families, vocational training and child welfare. While TPA funding is a small fraction of the BIA's total spending on Native Americans, it underscores how awry the system has gone. In President Bush's 2003 budget proposal, the 28,000 Turtle Mountain Chippewa in North Dakota, 68% of whom are unemployed, will receive the equivalent of an average $154 each. But the 400 members of the Miccosukee Tribe in Florida, whose Miccosukee Resort and Gaming Center rakes in an estimated $75 million a year, will collect $2,858 per person--almost...
Elswit lives near scruffy MacArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles. She fits the profile of the eager young progressive: her tastes run to mountain climbing, experimental art and the Buddhist religious scholar Thich Nhat Nanh. But she's no flake. Elswit is the closest thing to a professional antiwar activist, holding down jobs at two peace-advocacy groups. In between breakfast meetings with religious leaders and other opponents of the war, she is coordinating a civil-disobedience event planned for this week in Los Angeles that will include a candle-light vigil on Hollywood Boulevard. Elswit and other young antiwar...
...exactly, is benefiting? Certainly Indians in a few tribes have prospered. In California, Christmas came early this year for the 100 members of the Table Mountain Rancheria, who over Thanksgiving picked up bonus checks of $200,000 each as their share of the Table Mountain Casino's profits. That was in addition to the monthly stipend of $15,000 each member receives. But even those amounts pale beside the fortunes made by the behind-the-scenes investors who bankroll the gaming palaces. They walk away with up to hundreds of millions of dollars...