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DIED. Sergio Vieira de Mello, 55, fearless and elegant U.N. representative in Iraq, who promoted peace and nation building in such war-torn countries as East Timor, Kosovo and Cambodia; in the suicide bombing that struck U.N. headquarters, killing 23 and injuring 100; in Baghdad. After a 34-year diplomatic career, the Brazilian diplomat was seen as a possible candidate for the U.N.'s top job. "I can think of no one we could less afford to spare," eulogized U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. De Mello survived the initial blast and was heard calling from the building's debris...
...What is the international community waiting for? The final disaster?" FREDERIC BARDOU, country director of Action Against Hunger, on the lack of international intervention in war-torn Liberia as civilian food supplies run short...
...Number of U.S. Marines to arrive in Monrovia, Liberia's war-torn capital...
...visitor around her place, she apologizes for the darkness. The orphanage has a generator, but no gas. Williams shares a double bed on wooden slats with four babies. The older kids have metal-frame bunk beds. The mattresses, where they exist, are inch-thick foam pads. Rambunctious kids have torn down pieces of the straw ceiling. Daylight shines through the corrugated tin roof. Williams' main worries are food and medicine. During peacetime, she would get bulgur wheat from the World Food Program. Now she gets nothing. The price of a bag of rice has quintupled since the latest round...
...GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY. The spaghetti western reached its pinnacle form in this classic directed by Sergio Leone. Set in the war-torn American Midwest, the film follows three top notch gunslingers on their search for a lost treasure. The trouble is, they aren’t working together. Clint Eastwood, in a reprisal role from A Fistful of Dollars, plays the Good: a gruff silent type with at least a shred of principle. Eli Wallach plays the Bad, a cruel devil named Angel Eyes who’ll do anything...