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...trade ceased last year, after the U.S. blew the whistle and Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic came clean (prior to his recent assassination). Belgrade then persuaded Yugoimport to hand over blueprints of the bunkers. A senior Foreign Ministry official says Yugoimport's leaders agreed to help "only when they understood that there would be something in it for them." While U.S. officials emphatically deny that such contracts have been promised, Yugoimport was back in Baghdad, reopening the offices that just last year were peddling arms to Saddam. - By Andrew Purvis and Dejan Anastasijevic/Belgrade NAPLES CAN'T REFUSE ITALY Several Naples...
There's plenty of time between now and Nov. 2, 2004, and you may still find yourself in need of an occasional vacation from presidential politics. Understood. But at TIME, we promise to keep you informed of everything that matters on the road to the White House. And with Joe and the rest of our political team, we also promise to keep things interesting...
...Hong Kong at present suffers from both a structural shift in the world's economic geography and a plague, the virulence and duration of which is poorly understood. Following the breakdown of socialist and communist ideology in China and the Soviet Union, and the end of policies of self-reliance and isolation on the Indian subcontinent, the developed world's economic sphere has been enlarged by the same factor as during the great era of European exploration.More than 3 billion people have recently joined the global market economy. This means Hong Kong has new competitors, as do Japan, South Korea...
...vertical rock face, later named the Hillary Step, desperately hoping it could be scaled. In 1953, so much of modern mountaineering was still to be discovered. Archaic clothing and tents made Everest's frigid temperatures lethal. Oxygen bottles were three times heavier than today's. Deadly altitude illnesses, little understood, caused brains to swell and lungs to fill with fluid. Because lightweight radios had yet to be invented, it wasn't until Hillary and Tenzing had descended to within a few hundred meters of advanced base camp and Hillary held up two fingers in victory that the world learned Everest...
Carpio, who arrived in the department this year after being recruited by Gates, said that while she would miss him, she understood the need for his absence...