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...civilians, including children. Is this the democrat the West wants? A shift of power to any other candidate would at least add credibility to the democratic mechanism. The worst thing the West can do is give Yeltsin the green light to rig the elections or ignore them. OLLI LAGERSPETZ Swansea, Wales...
While his origins are still murky--reports have him either as native Iraqi or Kuwaiti, educated in Swansea, England, perhaps raised in Pakistan--Yousef's alleged terroristic record in America has emerged from court papers and books. The scrawny 25-year-old arrived in New York City on Sept. 1, 1992, on an Iraqi passport, having moved through Jordan and Pakistan before landing at J.F.K. airport. According to Two Seconds Under the World, an account of the Trade Center bombing authored by New York Newsday columnist Jim Dwyer, Yousef said he had been tortured by the Iraqi military and successfully...
...time he left school at 16, Thomas had decided that he was a poet and that his art would help him escape his native Swansea, Wales, and "the smug darkness of a provincial town." After one of his poems appeared in a London newspaper, he received a complimentary letter from Pamela Hansford Johnson, a bank clerk and aspiring poet who would later become a well-known novelist. A correspondence developed, during which Thomas assumed the roles of mentor, critic and romantic outlaw...
...Swansea, Mass., a boy suffering from AIDS was allowed to attend his eighth-grade class earlier this month, and only half a dozen of the school's 630 students were kept home by parents. But many parents bitterly railed against "the fancy talk" of experts who use vague terms like "shared bodily fluids" and speak of "probabilities" and "percentages" instead of giving yes or no answers...
...large man, but he fills the brooding gothic gloom of the Near North Side church with his resounding voice, as the late Dylan Thomas might if he were reading Yeats, or Richard Burton would if playing Hamlet. Like the poet Thomas, Davies grew up in Swansea, Wales. He claims that Burton patterned his style on Welsh preachers, the only regular actors on display during his youth...