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...Seoul, Berkoff won a gold medal in the 4x100 meter relay as well as silver in the 100 backstroke. Kennelly notched a bronze with the four-man shell without coxswain, as did Rusher in the eight-man shell...
Western governments seem to hope the mere threat of force will scare off combatants who have shown no signs of responding to international dictums. The nominal admission of inspection teams to some detention camps last week was little more than a shell game in which cleaned-up camps were opened to outsiders while prisoners were hustled away to other facilities far from prying eyes...
Network executives have clearly lost touch with the tastes and sensibilities of the American people--or at least with those of us unwilling to shell out $150 for the wonders of Triplecast. I would like to note here, for the bigwigs' benefit, just a few of the things that have been wrong with the network's coverage...
...Bosnia last week linked two pieces of territory to form the "Derventa corridor" -- a continuous belt of Serb-held territory running all the way from Serbia proper through the town of Derventa to Serb-populated zones of Croatia. At the Croatian end, the Serbs fired a 155-mm artillery shell that slammed into a soccer stadium crowded with refugees on the Croatian side of the Sava River, killing 13 people and injuring 60. In eastern Bosnia, Gorazde was the only sizable town still in Muslim hands, and it was under Serb assault and siege, its streets reportedly littered with corpses...
...unemployment is rooted in trends that began in the 1980s, when harried companies slashed payrolls to lower costs and meet increasingly fierce competition from abroad. Now, in a classic Catch-22 situation, U.S. firms are continuing their cutbacks partly because shell-shocked consumers are fearful of losing their jobs and are thus reluctant to spend. "The insecurity keeps everyone in limbo," says Audrey Freedman, president of the Manpower Plus consulting firm. "No matter what the mortgage rate is, people don't want to buy houses, trade up or commit funds. I think we're entering a decade or more...