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...private homes, middle-class families watch American movies on smuggled videocassettes: Rambo--First Blood Part II is currently doing the rounds of Tehran's northern suburbs. Affluent Iranians eat at American-style fast-food restaurants, and despite the difficulties of getting an exit visa, even for an official fee of $500, many still vacation abroad. Says one Western diplomat in Tehran who has served in two East European capitals: "Things are a lot more open here than Eastern Europe...
Even the fanciest equipment will not afford northern skygazers the view they might have in southern latitudes. For those who want a closer look, travel agencies offer Halley's excursions to such distant sites as Arequipa, Peru; Botswana, Africa; the Amazon; and Sydney, Australia, at prices ranging from $1,400 to $29,000. Several of the tours feature star speakers: a Royal Viking Line cruise with Carl Sagan on March 26 has been sold out for six months. Other tour guides include a top NASA scientist and a physics professor from San Diego State University. "Our cruise," insists Richard Doolittle...
...coincidence that, with the exception of Botswana, all the countries faced with continuing food emergencies are racked by civil wars. In Ethiopia, fighting between rebels and government forces in the northern provinces of Tigre and Eritrea has severely limited farming. Catholic Relief Services estimates that 5 million to 6 million Ethiopians still need food aid, and many of them are in unreachable war zones. But transportation in the rest of Ethiopia should improve in December with the arrival of 250 trucks donated by U.S. AID, the Live Aid Foundation and the Band Aid Trust...
...protesters barricaded themselves in Athens Polytechnic University. After two days and nights of disturbances, peace returned, at a cost of one dead, more than 100 injured, and a political casualty, Government Spokesman Costas Laliotis, a left-winger who resigned in dismay at the handling of the crisis. NORTHERN IRELAND Extremists Unleash Their Fury...
Nobody said it was going to be easy. The controversial Anglo-Irish accord, signed two weeks ago by Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and Garret FitzGerald, gave the Dublin government a limited voice in the affairs of the British province of Northern Ireland for the first time. Last week, though the agreement had received solid support in both the British and Irish parliaments, it was harshly attacked by extremists on both sides...