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...consistently to something out in the real world. In this case there is such a test. It is this: There have been sixteen cases of which I'm aware where people have brought samples of something to embassy officials--the U.S. embassy, the Canadian embassy, the Australian embassy--or Thai government officials, United Nations officials, British officials. Every one, with no exception, turned out to be pollen, but people alleged that this was an agent of warfare, so it fits the definition. What we've done is to prove essentially that yellow rain is not an agent of war, that...
...people are shot when a group of desperate families raids a flood-control embankment. The wounded raiders are seeking to drain the water from their suburban Bangkok district; the gunman is protecting his dryer neighborhood. Elsewhere in the sodden Thai city, slumdwellers stage boat races in water fouled with raw sewage, and medical teams distribute antityphoid vaccine and foot-fungus ointment. It is monsoon season in Southeast Asia, and as this year's rains have made all too obvious, Bangkok (pop. 5.5 million) is slowly sinking...
...most of the rest of the world, private violence is not considered a high-priority social problem. Not that punch-ups at home are any less prevalent. Rather, as a Thai social worker says, "it's so common that no one thinks it's a problem." If anything, victims abroad are more explicitly shamed into silence, with the legal and medical systems often oblivious. In most countries a man's home is practically his personal free-fire zone, off limits to busybodies. And the U.S. has far and away more shelters and programs where victims can find solace and help...
...military support but for help with a wide variety of government services. Furthermore, the South Africa-supported UNHA rebels have recently been gaining ground in their efforts to destabilize the Dos, Santos government. Two weeks ago they captured the town of Cangamba. which is near the strategic Benguela railroad thai normally carries copper from Zambia to ports on the Atlantic. If UNITA scores further gains, Angola may feel an even greater need for Cuban support...
...special areas: Art Critic Robert Hughes, Design Critic Wolf Von Eckardt, Music Critic Michael Walsh and Senior Writers Paul Gray and Lance Morrow. Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin went to Japan to direct the activities of Bureau Photo Editor Shoichi Imai and the assignments of Photographers Neil Leifer and Ted Thai...