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For three days last week, thousands of demonstrators roamed the streets of Khartoum, Sudan's capital, looting shops, burning gasoline stations and trashing automobiles. Police and troops used riot sticks, tear gas and, on occasion, gunfire to quell the disturbances. At least six people were killed, more than 2,000...
What is different about Gorbachev is his ability to steer away from political cant when talking with Westerners. He is also able to mask his feelings when the occasion calls for it. When French President Francois Mitterrand mentioned Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov during a state banquet in the Kremlin last...
Geagea is reported to have won the backing of Solange Gemayel, Bashir's widow. One of his chief allies is another militia commander, Elias Hobeika, who led the Phalangist forces into the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in September 1982, where they murdered an estimated 700 to 800 Palestinian and...
Facts merely impeded Rousseau. He needed fictions. Desperately poor most of his life, he could not travel. He had plenty of sources to draw on, untraceable today because ephemeral then. He used almanacs and magazines, engravings and photographs. He visited the exotic pavilions at the 1889 Exposition in Paris. He...
The occasion was to be a historic one: the inauguration of Brazil's first civilian President after more than 21 years of military rule. Elaborate festivities were planned, and dignitaries from more than 100 countries, including Vice President George Bush, were on hand in the capital, Brasilia. Then came word...