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Russia, facing a mounting outcry to keep its weapons-grade plutonium under tighter control, said it had arrested smugglers on its own soil. Police said they had detained three men Aug.12 in Kaliningrad, a western outpost on the Polish border, after they tried to sell a 132-pound container of the radioactive material for $1 million. The would-be buyers included Poles, Germans and Russians. The disclosure of the six-day-old arrests gave Moscow brief cover as officials from Germany, the U.S. and other Western countries demanded cooperation on tracking smugglers and securing nuclear power plants. Meanwhile, persistent Russian...
Cuban authorities are locked in a standoff with 700 would-be emigres who took over an oil tanker in the port of Mariel, intent on reaching U.S. soil. The Cubans reportedly took advantage of a security lapse and rushed aboard the Maltese-registered vessel Sunday. The number of Cubans fleeing is rising as the Communist country's economy disintegrates without Soviet aid. The U.S. Coast Guard helped 371 Cubans to shore over the weekend, the biggest three-day total since the Mariel boatlift...
...would take an extra million gallons of purified water a day just to counter the dehydration. Last week about 50,000 gallons a day were arriving. The volcanic soil around the camps is so hard it is impossible to drill new wells or dig latrines without heavy mechanical equipment, which is still days away. "What do you mean, I must make sure to boil the water?" refugee Dafrose Kabutumwa asked a reporter. "Can't you see we're all going to die here...
...blazing Mediterranean sunshine, Yasser Arafat crossed the border from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, dropped to his knees and kissed the sandy soil. As the welcoming crowd cheered and waved black-red-green-and-white flags, he was surrounded by officials and security men from the Palestine Liberation Organization. He and his aides piled into a convoy of cars and trucks carrying armed guards and sped along the main north-south route into Gaza City. Thousands of supporters roared a welcome outside the building where the Israeli army of occupation had its local headquarters until last...
...Arafat as a practicer of genocide and treachery. It's true that Arafat has been a terrorist, murderer, and sly politician in his many years as one of Israel's chief adversaries. Seeing his face plastered all over television and on placards on what used to be Israeli soil must profoundly gall Israelis old enough to remember the atrocities of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The problem is that the Israelis must tolerate Arafat more than ever before, because he is absolutely necessary to the continuance of peace...