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...polls--75% of them, if government figures can be believed. On Friday morning, ex-general and incumbent President Liamine Zeroual was declared victor, with 61% of the vote and a mandate to bring peace to the country in his five-year term, beginning this week. The news broke the spell of silence, and a society long cowed by terror erupted with relief. The President's security forces indulged in a daylong binge of celebratory shooting. "The war's over! We won! This is democracy!" a policeman shouted as he fired his 9-mm pistol into the air. Middle-class women...
...UTAH "WILDERNESS" BILL IS ONE of the best examples of the Republican leadership's efforts to give away, sell off or otherwise develop America's forests, parks and wilderness. The bill could spell disaster not only for the awe-inspiring red rock canyon lands of southern Utah but for all America's remaining wild lands as well. If the Utah bill becomes law, "protection" for all these wild places might include logging trucks, oil rigs or other industrial development. Special interests are getting special treatment at a time when Congress has promised to slash government waste. And people said there...
...more than anyone appears to be Yeltsin's chosen successor. Chernomyrdin would be required to call a presidential election within three months. Matters would be less clear if Yeltsin remained alive but incapacitated. In this case also, Chernomyrdin would become acting President, but the Russian constitution does not spell out clearly when a President may be judged too ill to perform his job. A power struggle among ambitious rivals would almost surely ensue, with the fragile constitution itself only one of the potential casualties...
Passersby who stopped to stare at the white picket fences which mysteriously appeared in the Yard last night were probably unaware that the fences actually spell out a message in DNA code...
...terrible, two-decade drought that plagued the African Sahel until lately also cut down on tropical storms, says Gray. Strong winds that accompanied this prolonged dry spell swept rain clouds away from the Sahel and sheared the tops off storm systems that might eventually have become hurricanes. Now that the drought has eased, these storms are more likely to persist and grow...