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Issatu Kargbo is 13, one of seven children of farmer Alimany Kargbo, who moved last year to Samuel Town village, about 20 miles southeast of Freetown, because of fighting in his home area. The family lives in a shack in the garden of an abandoned house. Last Jan. 13, Issatu was staying with her aunt on the edge of Freetown, waiting to go for a medical checkup, when rebels overran her neighborhood...
...What is U.S. policy on East Timor? The U.S. had tacitly supported Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor because Indonesia was its key southeast Asian ally during the Cold War. Over the next decade, Washington routinely voted against U.N. resolutions recognizing East Timor's independence and urging Indonesia's withdrawal. With Cold War concerns a thing of the past, however, the U.S. now wants Indonesia to respect the will of East Timor's people as expressed democratically through August's referendum. But Indonesia's economic and political centrality to the region, and its potential instability, make Washington cautious about...
...four years ago, he was--moving 2,000 to 3,000 head of cattle a year between his farm in North Carolina and his farm in Minnesota. But in 1995, Zaitz, then 40, got dissatisfied. His customers were disappearing as hard times hammered the dairy business, especially in the Southeast. And his "profit margins were going to nothing," he says. "I just couldn't see much future in what I was doing." But Zaitz could see a future on the Internet, to which he'd been introduced a few months earlier. He had a vision of creating "a complete marketplace...
...near nursing sea lions, both mothers and pups can starve. That's why the Trustees for Alaska, a public interest law firm, has sued the U.S. government for failing to protect areas vital to endangered marine mammals. The group's litigation director, Peter Van Tuyn, points out that in southeast Alaskan waters, where there is little industrial fishing of pollack, the sea lion population has held up relatively well. And fur seals in the Pribilofs have done better than sea lions, perhaps because they have a more varied diet...
Already the U.S. is passing intelligence about FARC activities to Colombia's top military officers. And U.S. planes, based in Florida, Colombia, Ecuador and Honduras, have flown more than 2,000 counter-drug missions. Many of those were reconnaissance flights similar to the one that crashed southeast of Bogota on July 21, killing its American crew and two Colombian officers. The efforts are backed by a $289 million annual aid package. (Colombia is the third largest recipient of U.S. largesse, behind Israel and Egypt...