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...embraces everything from street vendors selling cigarettes and candy in a Dar es Salaam market to the intricate border smuggling of Zambian gemstones. At least 10 million of 26 million Kenyans make a living from small-scale cash-crop farming, carpentry, metalworking, tailoring, illicit brewing and running private transport. Secondhand clothes are imported from Europe and America and sold by the roadside. Packing cases are fashioned into furniture. Oil drums are made into roofing sheets, frying pans, barbecues, stoves, knives and lamps. Cars that cannot be repaired are salvaged piecemeal and turned into donkey carts. Much of this unofficial labor...
...seems out of the question. While maintaining a 117- plane strategic bomber fleet essential for delivering heavy bomb loads and air-launched cruise missiles over intercontinental distances, the Air Force could be reduced to 10 active and five reserve tactical fighter wings, totaling 1,500 planes, and 300 large transport planes. TIME's estimated future cost: $65 billion, compared with $83 billion currently...
When a British Hercules transport plane heading away from Sarajevo was tracked by ground-based radar, U.N. peacekeepers on the ground responded by closing the airport. It reopened two days later but closed briefly on Saturday after mortar fire hit the U.N. headquarters...
There was a cool if utterly cruel political logic behind the massive rocket attacks launched on the Afghan capital of Kabul last week. The city has been left completely isolated, its transport and communications links cut; there is no power or water. Foreign embassies and U.N. personnel are seeking evacuation, while perhaps 100,000 more citizens have fled...
...protect paintings. Nearby was a three-bedroom cottage, fully furnished and complete with china, silverware and napkins -- ready for the curator to move in and oversee the collection. Several former gallery executives recall that for years 2 1/2-ton trucks were kept in the gallery's garage and driveways to transport the artworks in the event of a threatened attack. Each week security staff would start the trucks' engines and make sure the gas tanks were full. By the early 1970s the plan had fallen into disfavor. "It lost its appeal when Lynchburg became more of a likely bombing target because...