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At least 40,000 refugees are now trying to fleeBurundi, fearing the Central African country's growing wave of genocide. The refugees, many of them Zairean expatriates, others members of the warring Hutu and Tutsi tribes, balanced mattresses, suitcases and sacks of food on their heads, crowding roads to see...
The purge touched off an unseemly political tug-of-war between the Kremlin and Moscow's city hall. Sergei Gerasimov, the prosecutor appointed to take Ponomaryov's place, quickly resigned. In Parliament Yeltsin's opponents pushed through a lopsided vote of no confidence in Interior Minister Victor Yerin, who is...
U.S. officials -- and quite a few others -- knew of plans for a coup last weekend against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Unfortunately, Saddam seems to have been among the cogniscenti. Led by Wafiq Samaraii, who headed Iraqi intelligence during the Gulf War but later lost his post in a purge, the...
Months after a fall White House purge, White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers said today she's leaving her job at year's end. "It is time for me to move on to do other things," said the 34-year old native Californian, the first woman to hold the...
"Sometimes I would sit down and know I would purge afterwards," she says. "Other times I would sit down just to do it, almost in a trance. Certainly there was no physiological hunger."