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...militia raids in the famine zones, the bombing of relief centers and denial of access to relief supplies. These abuses have made the relief efforts in the country more difficult and dangerous. Last fall there was no possible way to predict the series of events that led to this tragic famine. USAID is the world's largest donor to relief efforts in Sudan, providing more than $75 million so far in 1998 alone. But, ultimately, only a comprehensive peace that allows for equality and religious freedom for all people will end the suffering of the Sudanese. J. BRIAN ATWOOD, Administrator...
...related news, Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of last Aug. 31's car crash, today appealed for privacy for all the families involved "to let us mark this tragic anniversary in our own way." Rees-Jones taped a statement for APTV, the Associated Press's international video news agency, saying he would make no further public comments until the conclusion of a judicial inquiry into the crash in Paris...
...narrative--a messy, lesser tale that in a society uncontaminated by race hate would have been universally dismissed as a hoax--merged with deeper American memories of race and rape and lynching (the mobs sometimes made up of white law officers). Tawana's lie claimed the prestige of tragic precedent and a legacy of sacred indignation. Tawana became indistinguishable in moral terms from, say, Emmett Till, the Chicago 14-year-old lynched in 1955 in Tallahatchie County, Miss., for daring to get fresh with a white woman...
...most Americans thalidomide is synonymous with tragic birth defects. But last week the FDA made headlines by approving the drug--for leprosy victims. Research suggests that thalidomide may later be helpful in treating other conditions, including tumors and AIDS-related illnesses, but these uses remain unapproved. The drug is still extremely dangerous for pregnancies, and patients will be carefully monitored...
Given the story's medical ground rules, tragic, unrequited love is the only love Blatchley can reasonably hope for, and he makes the most of it, courting the plain but gentle Nuala solely from his neck up, in thoughts and dreams and the occasional rounding of his lips. Drifting among blackouts, hallucinations and long days of morphine-muted delirium, he stitches together a history for Nuala as an archetypal carefree country girl, all windblown red hair and stylized pink cheeks. But since Blatchley is also an intellectual (his police beat was forged and stolen art), he isn't satisfied with...