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...Joseph headed toward open water, its crew and passengers in panic. Rushing from one side to the other to get away from the gunfire, many people fell or were pushed overboard. Then, when the boat was a few hundred yards from shore, the sail's boom broke free and swept across the deck, knocking scores more into the sea. The four policemen who had tried to stop the voyage saw the chaos and sped away, leaving hundreds in the water...
Everyone forgot about the champion's heart. Martina packed hers along with her rackets and sweatbands and made her last dance the most memorable Wimbledon in years. Against all odds, she swept through to the finals, vanquishing veterans and prodigies alike. Meanwhile Graf fell out in the first round, and second-seeded Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, 22, was sent to the sidelines in the fourth. Navratilova could be forgiven last Saturday if she was overcome with the urge to pinch herself. For there she was on Centre Court again, playing for an unprecedented 10th ladies' singles title against third- seeded Conchita...
...North Korea's refusal to let inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency do their job. Even now the Koreans are portraying as a concession their willingness to let two inspectors keep watch on the fuel rods lying in water- filled pools. The battle over full inspections has been swept, along with other economic and diplomatic questions, into the new round of talks...
...authorities are trying to strike back. Last Tuesday, just after midnight, 20,000 soldiers and police in camouflage gear swept through several dozen Moscow hotels, businesses and banks, hoping to cripple the criminal gangs. In the meantime, citizens are afraid to go out at night; stores have difficulty keeping pistols, Mace and bulletproof jackets in stock; dinner conversations stop abruptly whenever a tail pipe backfires in the streets. "The crime problem today knows no limits," says Pavel Gusev, editor in chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets, who travels with a bodyguard. "In the U.S. your Mafia has already divided up spheres...
THESE PAST FEW YEARS SHOULD have been the best of times for Eastern Europe. Oppressive communist regimes were swept aside, along with the walls, fences, laws and secret-police forces that kept whole populations locked away from the world. Freely elected governments are in office, and the free market is starting to take hold. At long last, East Europeans are looking forward to the kind of material prosperity that the West has known for decades. This should be a time of joy in the East, an era of good health, optimism and babies...