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...Southward lies the dilapidated neighborhood known as La Vibora. There, a gaggle of elderly women cluster in a disintegrating foyer. Pointing to one in the group, they say, Talk to her. She is the anti-revolutionary. Asking to be called Luisa, the 66-year-old mother of an exile is glad President Bill Clinton cut off remittances, even if it means no more money from her son in California. "He pockets the money anyway," she says. Who? "Fidel. Who else?" Alarmed, her companions shush her, and she lowers her voice. "I'd rather suffer a little more than see this...
Another obvious sign of Russian military pressure is an attempt to amend the CFE treaty so that Russia can move more heavy weapons southward for deployment. The Russians contend that their southern borders are threatened by civil wars in Caucasus, a circumstance unforeseen by the original treaty. Western negotiators are opposed to changes. "CFE is a good agreement," says a senior British diplomat. "The Russian generals never liked it, and now they feel in a stronger position to press Yeltsin to dilute it." Nevertheless, some Western leaders are hinting at a compromise. Manfred Worner, NATO's Secretary-General, agrees that...
...these adventurous souls reach Alaska? What kind of people were they? How fast did they spread down through the Americas? For decades, archaeologists felt sure they knew the answers: the first Americans were skilled hunter-gatherers and toolmakers who arrived about 11,500 years ago and moved rapidly southward, reaching deep into South America within about five centuries as well as helping drive to extinction such prehistoric mammals as mastodons and woolly rhinos...
That my paperwork had already left the Adams House office for New Haven, Ann Arbor and points westward and southward rendered that option moot, but I wouldn't have called anyway...
...crucial time for the rest of the continent as well. The climate started to get progressively dryer, and the Sahara expanded into a vast desert. Nomadic tribes that herded cattle, sheep and goats on the fringes of the Sahara and the Sahel and in the Sudan were forced southward to the Central African savannas, where they gradually displaced hunter-gatherers who had dominated the area for thousands of years. Only in southern Africa, where farming was difficult, did the Stone Age hunter-gatherers and fishermen continue to hold their own. In caves and rock shelters of the Kalahari, remote ancestors...