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...Anglican lay associate, Waite was drawn to the church, he has said, for "its passionate coolness, its mixture of authority and freedom." The son of a policeman, he grew up in the northwestern English village of Styal. He took a degree at a church college and headed to Uganda in 1968 as an adviser to the local archbishop. He and his wife Frances, who have three daughters and a son, were once held at gunpoint during a mass expulsion of foreigners following Idi Amin Dada's takeover in 1971. After working in Rome as an adviser to the Vatican...
Standing amid the lush bamboo groves and rice paddies of northwestern Sichuan province, the U-shaped farmhouse is typical of the local architecture, with a wooden frame, stucco walls and a gray tile roof. Ten families have subdivided the 16 rooms of the 100-year-old structure into 32 cubicles, and its courtyard is dotted with drying pepper bunches and ears of corn. In the center of these crowded communal quarters stand three rooms unused except by the 60 or so visitors who turn up daily to see the birthplace of Deng Xiaoping. But even the smattering of photographs...
...protested the U.S. deployment of F-16 fighters in northern Japan and urged Tokyo to consider carefully any participation in the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, program. The Japanese, led by Foreign Secretary Shintaro Abe, countered by expressing "strong regret" over the Soviet military buildup in the northwestern Pacific, including the deployment of an estimated 135 SS-20 intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Discussions on economic matters proved more constructive. The two countries signed a pact governing taxes on Soviet-Japanese trade and agreed to meet annually for talks on development projects in Siberia...
...owner-pilot market has all but dried up, and one cause is the cost of product liability. It has driven the price of a new airplane out of the reach of the average person who wants to buy one." Some commercial fishing boats that once sailed out of Pacific Northwestern ports have been put into dry dock because owners could not afford liability-insurance premiums that commonly have doubled in the past year...
This was some time back, Betty Jane Curry was explaining, "back in the hippie days." A long-haired transient blew through town--the little town of Cuba in the mountains of northwestern New Mexico--and made the fatal mistake of sexually assaulting one of Cuba's young women. Betty Jane and her colleagues on the local paper, the Cuba News thought this worthy of note, especially after a knot of vengeful Cubans had their way with the vagrant. Trouble followed publication. As Betty Jane put it: "The local fellows didn't like it at all that we printed their names...