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...crisis in the gulf becomes a shooting war, Jordan could be the first Arab country to perish. Precariously situated between the borders of Iraq, Israel and Saudi Arabia, the kingdom of 3.5 million, Jordanians fear, would be obliterated in the cross fire. King Hussein knows that if Israeli forces were drawn into the fighting, there would be little to stop them from marching into Jordan and declaring the entire country a Palestinian homeland. Such an invasion could cause so much devastation and economic chaos that the half- Palestinian, half-Bedouin country might disintegrate into warring factions...
...little piece of New York City died with him. Rayvon was the fourth child to be killed by a stray gunshot in less than nine days and the second to perish within the safety of his own home. By the time he was buried last week, yet another child had been fatally shot and three more wounded. The slain children are called mushrooms in street lingo -- as vulnerable as plants underfoot. Their deaths have pushed New Yorkers, already reeling from a daunting inventory of urban ills, to a new depth of despair. "The job of taking back our streets requires...
Certainly, managing the hajj is a formidable exercise. Despite Saudi efforts to regulate where and how believers travel, some, particularly the elderly, perish each year attempting to complete the long hikes in the desert sun required by the pilgrimage, which is a must for any Muslim who is physically and financially able to make it. In recent years the month-long hajj season has become more unmanageable as the Islamic revival and the increased affordability of air tickets have swelled the annual ranks of pilgrims to 2 million or more. To handle the deluge, the Saudi government is investing...
...Gorbachev can't seem to please anyone. -- Despite economic union, flinty East Germans hold on to their marks. -- Pilgrims perish in a Mecca tragedy...
...many new student publications at Harvard, publish, then perish is the rule. Faced with rising costs and diminishing sources of income, most campus journals appear only a few times before bankruptcy sweeps them into the dustbin of history--or, in this case, into coffins tucked away in the Harvard Archives...