Word: somes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gudermes is muddy and miserable and seems half-empty. As in Grozny, some residents are holed up in apartment blocks that look to Western eyes as if they have been rendered uninhabitable by artillery fire. The city has no lights, no gas, no work. As our convoy drives up to...
For 37 years Cuba's communist dictator, Fidel Castro, has chafed, rattled and raged under the cold-war headlock of a U.S. trade embargo. But this past summer the wily presidente sensed an opening. Philadelphia health-care-products giant SmithKline Beecham (a subsidiary of SmithKline Beecham in Britain) got the...
Ashcroft has clear support in the Senate--and behind the scenes among some in the Administration--since a Reuters poll last spring found that 67% of Americans favor ending the embargo. "It's hard for me to find anyone in this building who supports our Cuba policy anymore," says a...
What's more, Cuba is no Shanghai. It is not an easy place to do business. Canadian and European executives warn that the island is an emerging market the way molasses is a river: the socialist bureaucracy is maddening; the military, headed by Castro's brother Raul, plays an inordinate...
But though the diamonds are legal, they are anything but clean--at least in an ethical sense. Angola's diamonds, mined by thousands of men, women and children in backbreaking alluvial pits, fuel a rebel war that has torn the country apart for more than two decades. In a strange...