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Meanwhile, arms proliferate throughout the Middle East. Last week Libya successfully tested a system to refuel fighter-bombers in midflight, thus improving Tripoli's ability to attack Israel. In Beijing witnesses photographed a heavily guarded convoy of flatbed trucks carrying a total of 26 short-range missiles toward the port of Tianjin. Although it cannot be proved that the missiles are destined for the Middle East, it is feared that they are intended for delivery to Syria or Iran...
...prosperity in their new home. A decade ago, a 1 1/2-mile strip of Bolsa Avenue between Garden Grove and Westminster in Orange County, Calif., was a ragged quilt of vacant lots and small stores, bean fields and discount emporiums. Today the stretch is as alive as payday in a port city -- specifically, Saigon. Between 20,000 and 50,000 Vietnamese flock each weekend to 800 shops and restaurants, buying herbal medicine and dining out on snail-tomato-rice-noodle soup. In the mornings people may attend Buddhist ceremonies in makeshift temples; in the evenings they can applaud Elvis Phuong...
When Indian peacekeeping forces arrived in Sri Lanka nearly three years ago to try to end a brutal civil war, exultant crowds greeted them with flowers and handshakes. But when the last batch of 2,000 soldiers trooped onto a waiting ship at the eastern port of Trincomalee last week, completing a six- month withdrawal of 70,000 men, not a single civilian showed up to bid them goodbye. If the locals had anything to say to the "peace-keepers," whose presence brought not peace but one of the bloodiest chapters in Sri Lanka's already violent history...
...most recent strongman was reminiscent of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier's ignominious departure in 1986. On the morning of his 53rd birthday, after seven days of protests and a general strike, Lieut. General Prosper Avril and his family were driven to the airport on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince last week, placed aboard a U.S. Air Force C-141 StarLifter and flown into refuge in the U.S. Thus ended the turbulent 18-month rule of Haiti's fourth leader in four years...
...want to make this an honor for the students who receive it," said Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature Stephen Owen. Owen said he was encouraged by the Port Washington, N.Y.-based company's commitment in creating the "TDK Fellows" to the humanities...