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...words." As its haunting harmonies echoed down nearby Rustaveli Prospect, tens of thousands of Georgians thrust clenched fists into the air. One year ago to the day, on April 9, 1989, Soviet troops had broken up a peaceful demonstration on the very same spot with tanks, shovels and poison gas, killing 20 people. Last week residents gathered in the streets again -- but not just to mourn their dead. As one impassioned young speaker put it, they were celebrating "a great victory on the difficult road to freedom and complete independence...
Portnoff's portrayal of Ligurio in particular suffers from a lack of poison, and the result is a stultifyingly bland performance. His Ligurio is unduly stilted. Portnoff, along with another performer who speaks of "black-guards", mispronounces words and stumbles over his lines on more than a few occasions...
...ironic reversal of roles, two chemical makers -- Mobay Corp. of Pittsburgh and Dallas-based Occidental Chemical Corp. -- are taking the high moral ground against the U.S. Government by refusing to sell an ingredient necessary to produce a poison gas. The chemical is thionyl chloride, which is used in pesticides and plastics, but is also needed by the Army to make sarin, a lethal nerve agent...
...that would rage long after the last American helicopter left Saigon. Over the past 13 years, some 35,000 Viet Nam veterans have vigorously pressed Washington to compensate them for injuries and illnesses that they believe were caused by exposure to Agent Orange. The herbicide contains dioxin, a potent poison that causes cancer in laboratory animals. But Government officials have delayed paying most claims, pointing to a lack of scientific proof that Agent Orange hurt the soldiers. Last week researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a report designed to help resolve the controversy. For most...
...only the perennial bane of the U.S.-Japan trade imbalance but also a widening array of other economic conflicts threaten to poison the relationship over the coming months. During the election campaign that ended with balloting on Feb. 18, Washington muted its complaints about Japanese economic practices. Within hours after the scandal-shaken L.D.P. won a healthy victory, taking 275 out of 512 lower-house seats, the steady tattoo began again. "Kaifu is determined to deal with these problems," says a Tokyo bureaucrat. "They are on the top of his agenda...