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...result, southern Lebanon is growing increasingly isolated from the rest of the country, a fact that is starkly obvious at the main Israeli checkpoint, near the Lebanese village of Batir al Chouf. Every day the roadway teems with hundreds seeking passage between southern Lebanon and the north. Israeli sentries separate the men from the women, then methodically inspect baggage and examine papers...
...Seoul's Myong Dong Cathedral when a deranged-looking young man dashed out from the crowd and, assuming a shooter's crouch about 35 ft. from John Paul's bulletproof car, brandished what looked like a handgun. An alert policeman fired one shot into the roadway in front of the man, who threw his "weapon" to the ground; it proved to be a plastic toy. The man raised his arms with fists clenched before he was hustled away...
...crossing 50 miles east of the capital on the Pan American Highway that many considered to be indestructible. Before government forces responded to the attack, the rebels managed to plant plastic explosives on the quarter-mile span. The blast snapped the suspension cables and sent twisted sections of roadway plummeting into the Lempa River. Until the bridge can be repaired, cotton, sugar and coffee harvests from the eastern departments will have to be transported across the top of a near...
...streets, men in tattered clothing water shrubs, scrub public monuments, whitewash scaly tree trunks or sweep nearly empty stretches of roadway gutters. Business has slowed drastically even in places that cater to the rich. At Las Mañanitas in Cuernavaca, a favorite weekend retreat for the capital's elite, stately white peacocks pick their way among sparsely occupied cane lawn chairs. A few months ago, Mexico's well-to-do had to wait an hour to get a table. Says Claudio Weiz, an Argentine businessman in Mexico City: "Mexicans are in a trauma. They have never suffered...
...projected to peak at 4,204 ft. above sea level in June, nearly a foot more than officials estimated only months ago. The culprit: a spate of unseasonably cool, moist weather that has prevented evaporation, which normally acts to counterbalance the effects of the runoff. Damages to property and roadway, now estimated at $20 million to $30 million, could go as high as $264 million this year. Salt water has begun to eat away at the dikes protecting the nine wildlife refuges that rim the lake; about 4,000 acres of fresh-water marsh, home to some 7 million waterfowl...