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...occurred not in the forests of Afreica but in Reston, Virginia, only 15 miles from Washington. It all started at the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit, run by a company that imports and sells monkeys for use in research laboratories. When an unusual number of deaths were recorded among a shipment of monkeys that had recently arrived from the Philippines, tissue samples were sent to a U.S. Army research center...
...begin in Rwanda, where the refugee disaster is claiming a life a minute. After private aid experts had charged the White House with failing to understand the magnitude of the crisis, Clinton said the U.S. would build an "airlift hub" in neighboring Uganda for the 24-hour-a-day shipment of supplies to the region. He also called on the United Nations to send "a full contingent" of peacekeepers to provide security for civilians who want to return to their homeland. "The flow of refugees across Rwanda's borders has now created what could be the world's worst humanitarian...
...GENERAL RAOUL CEDRAS installed solar panels in his home in the hills above Port-au-Prince, an addition that will make his life more comfortable during frequent blackouts. Michel Francois, head of the Port-au- Prince police, ordered luxury furniture for his mansion -- but alas, the vessel carrying his shipment was turned back by the U.S. blockade...
...Russian-made wine in front of the Kiev railway station. When he was pushed out by a group of gypsies who controlled the wine trade, Leonid turned to imported cigarettes. Since then, he has branched out; one week he may move a consignment of flashlight batteries, the next a shipment of government-issue boots, obtained from a corrupt policeman. His ability to broker everything from investment bonds to manicure scissors can earn him 70,000 rubles...
Kien takes over from there. The fictional author forces the reader and himself through a "parade of memories" that "push upstream like a sampan toward the past." Some are gentle, as when his squad mistakenly receives a shipment of bras and side-button pants. Others are stark, as when he collapses drunk at Saigon airport at war's end and wakes up next to a dead, naked prostitute...