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This week, TIME has learned, government forces-including thousands of militiamen redeployed from the Ogaden desert war against Somali insurgents-will try to regain control of a vital highway linking the Red Sea port of Massawa with the provincial capital of Asmara...
Master Stone Carver Tom Murphy was born in 1904, the year King Edward VII visited the booming port city of Liverpool to lay the foundation stone of a great new Anglican cathedral. As Murphy grew up, so did the cathedral, with stone upon hand-dressed stone rising on a rocky eminence overlooking the Mersey River. Then, 44 years ago, Murphy himself joined the work force on the vast new church. In the decades since, with hammer, chisel and mallet, he has carved more than 100 heraldic shields, ornaments, pinnacles and corbels to decorate the cathedral inside and out; his last...
Poverty in the Philippines has fostered the feeling that "the Americans have so much, we should have some too." As a result, Olongapo has the brutal reputation of the most dangerous liberty port in the Pacific. Dependent families are scared to leave the base. The facilities you mentioned are their only recreation...
...should not have occurred. As it happened, the Chinese, eager for an African foothold, had already granted a $460 million interest-free loan to Zambia and neighboring Tanzania to finance a new 1,160-mile rail link running northeast from Zambia's copper mines to Tanzania's Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam. The project, built by 51,000 Chinese and African laborers, was first called the Great Uhuru (Swahili for freedom) Railway, renamed Tazara (for Tanzania-Zambia Railway) and was completed in 1976. Tazara should have provided Zambia with a new lifeline. Instead, it has become as useful...
...safety and concern over the breeder's role in the production-and proliferation-of plutonium, a highly toxic substance that can be used in weapons. The Soviets have a breeder reactor, which is used both to generate electricity and to desalinate water, on line at the Caspian Sea port of Shevchenko. They have a 600,000-kw breeder under construction near Beloyarsk in the Urals. They plan to build even more of these reactors, which, to the joy of power planners and the dismay of many others, produce more plutonium than they consume. Indeed, Mikhail Troyanov, a well-respected...