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...worst droughts in modern African history has added to the fear and hunger that warfare began. More than half the refugees are Somali, fleeing westward from continuous battles among their country's clans and subclans. From the north trek thousands of starving Ethiopians, and from the northwest Sudanese are fleeing from Khartoum's national army and the southern rebel forces it is pushing before...
Travelers cheered but Wall Street booed when U.S. airlines slashed many airfares to their lowest levels in at least a decade. Northwest ignited the latest wars by cutting advance-purchase coach fares in half for families traveling with children ages 2 to 17 in the 48 contiguous states. American topped that by offering 50% off all advance-purchase coach seats on flights in the same region. Most other major carriers swiftly followed American's lead. The reductions cut the round-trip price of New York-Los Angeles flights to just $200 while fares between Atlanta and Chicago fell...
...logging in tropical forests. But the developing countries retaliated by demanding that the language cover temperate and boreal (northern) forests as well. The move was clearly aimed at the U.S., which has strenuously resisted any scrutiny of the logging practices in publicly owned ancient forests in the Pacific Northwest...
...BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAS MADE NO SECRET of its antipathy toward the Endangered Species Act and its most celebrated case, the northern spotted owl. Environmentalists have used the owl as a stalking horse to save the last 10% of old-growth forest in the Northwest; loggers claim that protecting it costs them 32,000 jobs. Last week the rare birds trembled, after the Cabinet-level committee known as the God Squad voted to override the act and allow timber sales on 1,700 acres...
...spreading cities. In Hennepin County, just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, some social-service agencies have doubled and tripled their caseloads in recent years. "The first-ring suburbs are starting to reflect what we saw in inner cities 10 to 20 years ago," says Patty Wilder, executive director of the Northwest Hennepin Human Services Council...