Word: therings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Where Hamer had told him Jesus was born, there'd been a dead tree--a bare black snag above the cave. Judas had gripped it, even then, and chinned himself once; it was still firmly anchored. So just as the sun broke free of the hills and swept the fringes...
General Alexander Mikhailov clearly wishes he were somewhere else. "I had my fill of fighting these monkeys three years ago," he complains to us, as we wait in Mozdok, a military base three hours by plane from Moscow that is the nerve center of operations against Chechnya. There is no...
The officer commanding the base, Colonel Yuri Em, invites us to lunch. No one was expecting us, we are told as we sit down to a light but tasty lunch of borscht followed by meat and buckwheat and served by young women in dazzling white mess jackets. Somehow this does...
That's the point, says Elena Freyre, executive director of the Cuban Committee for Democracy in Miami. "The next leader of Cuba will be from Cuba, not Miami," she says. "There are people there we need to start reaching out to." Freyre concedes that trading with Castro, now 73, could...
But the "financial structures will change," insists Peter Nathan, a Connecticut businessman who is taking a medical-products exhibition to Cuba in January--the first U.S. trade show there since Castro's 1959 revolution. Health care, though advanced in Cuba, suffers severe shortages. At Havana's William Soler Pediatric Hospital...