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...Bukavu fears a repeat of the huge exodus that brought 1.2 million Rwandans into Zaire last month. The latest tide could pour out of southwestern Rwanda this week, when the last of 2,500 French soldiers who established a safe zone in June for 1.5 million frightened Hutu are scheduled to depart. Under domestic pressure to bring its troops home, the French government last week ignored a plea by the U.S. to stay on until the situation stabilizes. The Hutu fear that the African troops of the United Nations force replacing the French will not be able to guarantee their...
...come-on, in any event, had been slick and seductive: pervasive TV commercials that wafted visions of apartments in Paris and vacations in California, and preposterous returns of 2,000% annually with no minimum investment. With those tactics, it did not take long for 5 million Russians to pour money into the offices of the MMM investment firm, the country's biggest and best-known stock fund...
...intimacy of talk radio. Anne Sweeney, chairman of fX, says her channel's goal is to create "a national network based on a local feel." America's Talking will use interactive | technology to get viewers involved. "This is a place where Americans can come, pull up a chair, pour a cup of coffee and join the national dialogue," says head of programming Elizabeth Tilson...
Apparently, Leland has seen "Philadelphia" one too many times. He's watched Jason Robards's character pour out "the poison in his soul" with perverse relish. It's a dream world of, well, clear-cut moral issues--a world where the reporter can say with smug confidence, "Homophobia seems like such a simple issue. We've all known homophobes...
...suddenly breathtakingly clear. Not only was nasa's Hubble repair mission an unqualified success (boosting the agency's chances of getting funding for its next big project, the space station), but astronomers now have a scientific tool of unprecedented power. Discoveries -- black holes, white dwarfs, new solar systems -- could pour in for years to come...