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...officials say strife in Rwandan neighbor Burundi, also torn by Hutu-Tutsi tribal tensions, now threatens the main food supply to refugee camps in Rwanda and Zaire. Relief workers fear that starvation in some parts of Rwanda could spark a new exodus of 800,000 Hutus across the border. U.N. officials, equally worried, say such a mass movement of refugees might also be prompted by the planned Aug. 22 departure of French troops...
Some of the most successful netwriting is produced in computer conferences, where writers compose in a kind of collaborative heat, knocking ideas against one another until they spark. Perhaps the best examples of this are found on the WELL, a Sausalito, California, bulletin board favored by journalists. The caliber of discussion is often so high that several publications -- including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal -- have printed excerpts from the WELL...
...still have only shaky confidence in their economies, which typically means their checkbooks will stay closed. But thanks to a surprising boost of exports in Europe and successful cost cutting in Japan, many companies expect an improvement in corporate profits by the end of the year. This should eventually spark further growth. "Things began to turn toward the end of the year, and the signs have multiplied since then. This is a recovery that is gathering pace and is still being underestimated," says Ian Harwood, director of global strategy for the S.G. Warburg investment house in London...
Admirers of the sport are happy that the summer game can actually spark excitement in a month when the winter games, basketball and hockey, are grabbing play-off headlines. Meanwhile, baseball solons ponder the bulging stats for the meaning of it all. A few notions...
...Japanese are worried that an attempt to curb Chongryun might spark violent reprisals, even sabotage. At the least, they expect angry street protests charging that Japan is once again oppressing Koreans -- an accusation that stings because many of the 1.5 million Koreans in Japan at the end of World War II were conscripted laborers, and those who stayed still suffer discrimination. In the 1950s and '60s, many believed that Kim Il Sung's North Korea, which was faring better than the chaotic South, was the best bet for Korea's future. About 40% of the 600,000 Koreans who stayed...