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...only warning was a nocturnal rumble that resembled distant thunder. Then a silent plume of colorless gas shot up from the turbulent depths of Lake Nios, just inside Cameroon's northwest border. Within minutes, the heavy fumes of carbon dioxide burst over the rim and sank into the valley below, enveloping sleepy hamlets in a deadly bubble. Villagers who had already bedded down for the night quietly suffocated in their sleep...
...years French soldiers of the United Nations peacekeeping force and the moderate Shi'ite Amal militia had been friendly. Last week the peace was shattered by the thunder of rocket-propelled grenades and the crack of automatic weapons resounding through the dusty, Amal-controlled village of Marrakeh. Reason: as French guards at a U.N. security checkpoint attempted to disarm a local Amal commander, his bodyguard pulled his own gun. The French responded with a fusillade that killed both Shi'ites. Before long, 100 Amal fighters roared into Marrakeh, their guns blazing away at French positions. By the time Amal Leader...
...Asian nations are particularly alarmed by the thunder of trade-war drums in Washington. In May, the House of Representatives passed an omnibus 458-page trade bill that would require the President to open trade talks with any nation that achieved an "excessive trade surplus" with the U.S. through vaguely defined unfair practices. The aim of the talks would be to reduce the trade imbalance 10% annually in such a case. If no agreement was reached, the White House would have to retaliate, for example, by raising tariffs or tightening import quotas. Clearly aimed at such countries as Japan...
...meet at district conventions in January 1988 to elect delegates to a state convention, and they in turn will choose the delegates who will go on to the national convention. Michigan's will be the first Republican delegates chosen, and that may help the state steal some of the thunder from the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. But as former Governor George Romney, 78, notes, "It's completely out of hand...
They saw the graceful parabolas of orange tracer bullets against the blackness of the sky. They heard the scream of jet fighters and the thunder of antiaircraft fire. They felt their hotel shiver in response to the bombs' pounding. But many of the U.S. reporters clustered in Al Kabir Hotel in downtown Tripoli were not quite sure what was actually going on. Like the people in Plato's parable of the cave who can discern reality only from the shadows that a fire throws on the wall, the correspondents could only make informed guesses as to what was happening...