Word: travels
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...civilian rule, with the military taking a backroom power- and money-sharing role, as it does in Thailand and Indonesia. But everything depends on Suu Kyi. Now she is free to walk from the house that has been her prison for six years. But is she free to travel? To take up her democratic campaign -- or, indeed, the mandate given to her by the Burmese people in 1990? That's almost certainly not the kind of freedom handed to her by the 21-general junta last week. The only thing that's sure is that Aung San Suu Kyi cannot...
Getting ATF agents to open up about their lives and work required unusual tact and tenacity. "There was a great fear of retaliation by the ATF management," he says. After two months of travel, scores of interviews and a stack of documents piled knee high in his office, he delivered a penetrating look at an agency at war not with the militias but with itself...
...voters in the crucial state of Florida. While Clinton has promised not to lift the embargo unless Cuba institutes free elections and other democratic changes, his Administration is open to easing some restrictions in return for partial measures from Castro. For now, the White House is thinking of making travel to Cuba easier for academics and religious figures, as well as lifting obstacles to the posting of Cuban journalists in the U.S. and American journalists in Cuba...
last week Yugoslavia won a 75-day extension of the suspension of some sanctions, allowing international air travel as well as cultural and sports exchanges. The U.N. certified that according to its frontier monitors Belgrade has been living up to the commitment to keep all but food, clothing and medical supplies from crossing into Serb-held Bosnia; whatever leakage the U.N. detected it considered "not significant." Says a Western diplomat in Belgrade: "Milosevic closes his eyes to certain things on the border, but then it's impossible to totally close a border in the Balkans...
...that the bars on a TV screen are moving left or right, toward or away, and he gets it 100% correct every time." Furthermore, notes Zeki, PET scans show that the patient's perception of motion is accompanied by the appropriate activation of V5. So how does the signal travel? Zeki is convinced the answer lies in a secondary pathway, a kind of back road created to get around the damaged area...