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TORRENTIAL RAINFALL PELTING DOWN ON A CORRUGATED-IRON roof jolted Specialist Jason Andrews from sleep on New Year's morning. "God, I'm still here," was the first thought that occurred to the 23-year-old from Winter Haven, Florida. "I was dreaming about a beach and warm weather," he says, "and I wake up in a sleeping bag in Bosnia...
Andrews, a supplies specialist who arrived in Tuzla on Christmas Eve, was sharing a drafty warehouse with about 200 men and women bedding down on green cots with shaky frames. Featuring a muddy concrete floor and diesel fumes, Building 21 is a temporary billet until tent cities are built at the base. For now, bedtime fashion consists of sweaters, wool hats, glove liners and socks. The bundling up is useful because nighttime temperatures drop below freezing, but it is not much help against drips from a leaky ceiling. Meals are still prepackaged rations of stews, mushy vegetables and dry cake...
MOSCOW: Russian President Boris Yeltsin named Yevgeny Primakov, a specialist in Middle Eastern affairs and head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, as the country's new foreign minister. In contrast to Andrei Kozyrev, ousted amidst charges from parliament of being too soft toward the West, Primakov is expected to turn the focus of Russia's foreign policy toward the Middle East and the former Soviet republics. "It's clear that Yeltsin wanted to find a successor who would not appear to be pro-Western," says Moscow bureau chief John Kohan. "Since Zhirinovsky and his supporters have put the nationalist...
According to police, Burden and James died because three soldiers stationed at Fort Bragg, the huge Army base adjacent to Fayetteville, decided it was a good night to commit a hate crime. Private Malcolm Wright, 21, Private Burmeister, 20, and Specialist Meadows, 21, had been drinking and nightclubbing when they allegedly drove to Campbell Terrace to harass blacks. The soldiers, members of the 82nd Airborne Division, had reportedly gone on such excursions before. This time, as Meadows waited in the car, Wright and Burmeister allegedly picked their quarry at random, accosted the couple and killed them. Meadows has been charged...
...specialist in 19th century French literature who is well known for her feminist perspective, Schor says she doesn't believe any major work in feminist theory has been published since Judith Butler's 1990 book Gender Trouble...