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Nuclear disarmement was only one of the many causes Myrdal joined to the benefit of humanity. She worked in social programs in underdeveloped nations and served as the Swedish ambassador to Burma and Nepal...
Internal terrorism also made headlines around the world last week. In the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, a car bomb exploded, killing 75 people and injuring 100. In Katmandu, capital of the remote Himalayan nation of Nepal, five bombs exploded at the royal palace and government buildings, killing seven people and wounding 240. The explosions came a day after King Birendra declared that he would thwart any "attempt to undermine peace and order." In London on Sunday, police set up cordons after a bomb was discovered in a hotel across the street from Buckingham Palace...
...have become more purposeful. In Sri Lanka, most volunteers are English teachers, but their programs are targeted at native educators rather than large groups of villagers; thus the agency produces trained local teachers to serve local needs. In Fiji, the corps provides tutoring in math, physics and accounting. In Nepal, the agency is looking for an array of new specialists, including urban planners, editors of technical journals and computer experts. But the volunteers there still tough out hardships: they usually live in small quarters with outdoor latrines and no running water or electricity. Says Lane Smith, director of the Peace...
...during his many key assignments; in Brattleboro, Vt. A graduate of Yale, Bunker was an executive in the sugar industry for 35 years before President Truman named him to be Ambassador to Juan Perón's Argentina in 1951; he was later posted to Italy, India and Nepal. Bunker helped avert a war between The Netherlands and Indonesia in 1962, and three years later mediated between factions in the Dominican Republic. Called from retirement and sent to Viet Nam in 1967 to preside over what he hoped would be the winding down of American involvement, Bunker did finally...
...Princeton University assigns a sophomore paper on "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," Brooke Shields, 19, who returns to school there this week, should have no problem finding something to write about. While her classmates may have been hiking in Nepal or holding regular summer jobs, Brooke spent four weeks on location in Nassau for a made-for-TV movie called Wet Gold. She plays a waitress who goes on a treasure hunt with her boyfriend, a scuba diver and the salty survivor of a sunken ship (Burgess Meredith, 75). The two younger men fight over Brooke and of course...