Word: provinciale
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Through the fogged window of the Moscow-Tambov express, the early-morning sky seemed so gray and thick that the horizon blended imperceptibly into fields of snow. Children on their way to school dawdled by a railway crossing, the flaps of their fur hats sticking out like ungainly wings. A...
Shackled by a national state of emergency and pinned under the bullying, finger-wagging rule of State President P.W. Botha, South Africa has long lain at the edge of despotism. Last week Botha pushed it over the line. Declaring himself fully recovered from the stroke he suffered in January, he...
Election officials had no results early today. They said they were having computer problems and suspended counting this morning. Guerrilla sabotage of electric power and telephone lines had hampered vote collection from provincial polling places.
Cirilo is with a group of some 30 heavily armed fighters camped on a coffee plantation just seven miles from Santa Ana's provincial capital, the site of a major army base. In recent months E.R.P. regulars and dozens of new peasant militias have attacked military outposts, ambushed patrols, and...
Perhaps not. Gigli and Valentino have already said plenty. "I don't believe in frontiers," reflects Gigli. Explains Carla Sozzani, a business associate of the designer's: "Romeo's all for 1992 and a united Europe." Valentino has announced some similar geopolitical aims. "I am going to Paris as an...