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...attempt at reconciliation three months ago, brokered by Jordan, collapsed, and clashes quickly erupted between Northern and Southern army troops. Al-Beidh accused Saleh of siphoning off oil revenues from a newly opened field in a Southern province. While Yemen remains one of the Arab world's poorest and most populous states, the discovery of oil 10 years ago gave both North and South hope that their 14 million people would no longer be dependent on the largesse of their wealthy neighbors. Until the Gulf War, Yemen relied on money sent home by millions of Yemenis in the oil sheikdoms...
They rarely work at all, unless followed by a liberal dose of bombs. But in the case of Haiti, the sanctions voted into effect last Friday will hurt the very people the U.N. wants to help--and do little to restore democracy to the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere...
...blended in with the people. He usually disguised himself as a chauffeur; he would don a long dustcoat, hunch his shoulders and, suddenly, this tall, singularly regal figure was transformed into one of the huddled masses moving along the streets of Johannesburg. Even today, at rallies or meetings, the poorest supporter of the A.N.C. feels he has the right to greet and address his leader...
...their residents to "normal communities." But "no one wants the poor in their neighborhoods," he says, "so that won't happen." The next best hope rests with the quiet revolution launched last week by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros. Rejecting calls to reserve public housing for the poorest of the poor, the Administration is proposing a series of economic incentives designed to create mixed-income developments where the role models Lane seeks (mostly poor too, but working nonetheless) can live without bankrupting themselves. To this end, HUD will shortly amend its rules so local authorities can prefer working...
...toilets, and bringing electricity to 2.5 million more homes. The plan provides for free and compulsory schooling for children and adult education for millions of blacks who learned almost nothing under inferior "Bantu education." It also calls for diverting public-health funds to provide and improve clinics in the poorest areas...