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...RAPE OF SIBERIA...
Your Siberia cover headline questions, THE RAPE OF SIBERIA...CAN IT BE SAVED BY CAPITALISM? That's like asking Can Alaska be saved by oil spills? Opening a part of Siberia that has not already been wounded by nuclear and other environmental horrors under communism to capitalist ventures in oil, forestry and so on will only make a bad situation worse. I suggest that the only kind of capitalism that should be allowed in Siberia is operations to clean up those areas damaged by hazardous dumping, and maybe a squadron of wrecking balls for Norilsk. Vice President Gore should turn...
Your cover story "The Rape of Siberia" is a disappointment. You seem to have compassion for the soil but not for the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Estonians, Latvians, Ukrainians and members of other nations who perished in Siberia during Soviet rule. AINA O. NUCHO Baltimore, Maryland...
...easy to downplay the global nature of the problem and focus on just one place. Benazir Bhutto won high praise for using her podium time in Beijing to criticize the Chinese treatment of women. What neither she nor the press mentioned is that in Pakistan, female rape victims are subject to prison sentences for "adultery." Bhutto once promised to end this stunningly malicious practice, but backed off rather than offend the local mullahs...
...Chinese people's access to the conference has been carefully restricted by the government, and many foreign delegates have been harassed. To rousing cheers, Mrs. Clinton also detailed a host of other abuses suffered by women worldwide: female infanticide, slavery, forced prostitution, domestic violence, genital mutilation, bride burning and rape. Later, she explained rather genteelly that "to me, it was important to express how I felt and to do so as clearly as I could...