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...civilized setting, they were likely to be drunk and abusive, and no wonder. Today Dave is a boon companion, but you are aware that his fuse doesn't have much length. We hired a car and went up to Hue together, intending to go to the Ashau Valley, home of Apbia Mountain, or Hamburger Hill, the site in May 1969 of one of the most appalling battles of the war. Dave was there. He was in enough places to be shot twice. When he got home in 1971, they popped him full of Thorazine. He wound up in Veracruz taking...
...hired by Carnegie Steel to squelch their protest. Ten workers died in the battle. In its heyday, Homestead's sprawling 400-acre U.S. Steel plant employed some 14,000 workers. Last month the Homestead mill was placed on ''temporary suspension,'' meaning shutdown. There is 52% unemployment in the Monongahela Valley; the local suicide rate is skyrocketing. Says Veteran Steelworker John Melechenko, 67: ''There's an old saying, When there ain't no smoke, there ain't no work. Now there ain't any smoke and there won't be any.'' Deindustrialization critics argue that some of the hardship could easily...
...Istanbul's top prosecutor, Aykut Cengiz Engin, gave one grave and tantalizing answer. He announced indictments against 86 people, including military officers and prominent journalists, for allegedly "attempting to overthrow the Turkish government by force." The "Ergenekon" coup plotters apparently named their hard-core nationalist group after an idyllic valley evoked in the Turkish people's pre-Islamic founding myth. The prosecution claims they were out to unseat the Islamic-leaning government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan by sowing chaos to provide a pretext for the army to step...
...endangered without a go-ahead from the government involved. It's one thing to decry the damage earthquakes wrought upon the Iranian city of Bam, protracted civil war on the national parks of the Congo, or the Taliban's 2003 dynamiting of the massive Buddhas of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley. It is clearly another for the Committee to confront the frequently negative impact that unchecked development or mismanagement can have on sensitive locations...
...fact, no sites were added to the endangered list at this year's WHC conclave. Last year the Committee said it would de-list the Elbe Valley in the German city of Dresden if construction proceeded on a four-lane bridge that activists said would damage the valley's delicate landscape. Now that bridge is under construction - but the Committee ruled it would "give Dresden more time" in the hope that local opposition could reverse the damage...