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...novel that follows is set in the Philippines under strongman Ferdinand Marcos?as was Dogeaters, Hagedorn's first novel?but the themes go back to Magellan: explorers turn out to be conquerors, Westerners are still bending Philippine destinies and lechery continues to bind colonizer and native...
...fears of a terrorist market for this kind of material. All Polled Out SERBIA-MONTENEGRO Serbia's ruling coalition dissolved itself after its candidate in the presidential ballot was out-polled by an ultranationalist. The 18-party Democratic Opposition of Serbia, which came to power in 2000 after ousting strongman Slobodan Milosevic, has been riven by infighting and two weeks ago called early elections after losing its parliamentary majority. The presidential ballot was ruled invalid due to low voter turnout - for the third time in just over a year. Freedom, for Some ZIMBABWE A Harare court released 52 activists...
...ensuing three decades, "One China," and the inexorable shift towards opening the Chinese economy to the West following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, began to change the terms of the relationship between Beijing, Taipei and Washington. Where Chiang had once represented the authoritarian strongman presiding over a booming capitalist economy offering low-cost manufactured goods to the U.S. market and raising the living standards of its people, today that role has been usurped on the mainland by the Chinese Communist Party. The tension across the Taiwan Strait remains high, but its terms have changed. Today, Beijing's claim...
...Died. Donald O'Connor, 78, comedian and film sidekick whose Make 'Em Laugh number in Singin' in the Rain is considered one of the great solo dances in Hollywood history; in Calabasas, California. The son of an Irish-born circus strongman, O'Connor shared top billing in six films with Francis, a talking mule...
...depraved military dictatorship in 1982 - only to be ousted by another coup a year later. In 1988, retired from the military, Ríos Montt formed the frg as a foe of Guatemala's rigid and venal oligarchy - shrewdly casting himself as the kind of populist caudillo (strongman) that Latin voters still tend to favor. The Maya Indians' traditional quiet stoicism about past trauma has made it easier for Ríos Montt to sell his quasi-delusional version of the local paramilitary squads he helped form, which terrorized the countryside until the civil war ended...