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...climbers, a motley assembly of shorts and sneakers, knickers and mountain boots, start out with cheerful hearts over a gentle, 5 1/2-mile path through rain forest to Mandara, a "village" of overnight huts. The second day is a more strenuous, 7 1/2-mile upward trudge through moorland to the Horombo complex of huts. Both sites were developed by the Norwegians as an aid project in the early 1970s. Today they could do with a little redevelopment...
Tokyo lacks the leadership to launch the kind of overnight reforms that would convince U.S. politicians that they were being heard. A Japanese Prime Minister does not carry the clout of an American President or a British Prime Minister; the ability to decree change is limited. The Recruit bribery scandal has virtually paralyzed the lame-duck administration of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita at a critical moment in U.S.-Japan relations. Says an official in the Foreign Ministry: "We have a first-rate economy, a second-rate standard of living and third-rate politicians." But the Japanese are beginning to look...
About the demonstrations, the spokesperson said Gorbachev "expressed the hope that it would be resolved by the Chinese people. Both sides have their hotheads who want to renovate socialism overnight...
...club, which has not had a major renovation since it was built in 1931, currently serves as a meeting and eating place for faculty members and provides overnight accommodations for guests and rooms for special functions. The temporary facilities in Quincy will only provide dining services...
...Almost overnight, astrophysics gained national prominence after being viewed for years as "a bastard science" akin to astrology, Huchra recalls. From 1955 to 1973, Whipple supervised research in celestial mechanics, upper atmosphere weather meteorics and satellites...