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...months and will stalk onto Broadway early next year. Signature lines of kitty sheets, towels, ceramic cat planters, calendars, mugs, watches, umbrellas, T shirts, sweatshirts, stationery and housewares move swiftly at gift stores and specialty shops like Purrfection in New York and the Cat House in Los Angeles. Mimi Vang Olsen, 43, a New York portraitist, will immortalize an owner's beloved cat in vibrant, primitivist oils for $2,500. There is a pet motel in Prairie View, Ill., that offers apartments, roomettes and imperial suites to guest cats for up to $6.50 a day: letters sent...
Another possibility put forth by the Hmong is that the deaths are related to stress and depression brought on by their relocation to the U.S. Says Tou-Fu Vang, who works in a federal refugee resettlement program: "The Hmong were kings of their area in the mountains. Now they find themselves in a situation that is completely out of their control...
Hiding Rice. Pressure by the Meo insurgents has closed Highway 4 from Paksane to Xieng Khouang and Highway 7 across the Plain of Jars. Highway 13 between Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang is so unsafe that government traffic can move only in armed convoys. South of Vientiane, Pathet Lao patrols, supported by the air force's nine T-28 fighter-bombers, manage to keep Highway 13 and Route 8 open during the day, but the Meo have full control after dark. In the south, at least 1,500 Royal Laotian army veterans and disgruntled peasants are carrying on another...
...everyone-if only because a prospective skipper needs to show some experience before a charter firm will send him tacking off through the coral with $45,000 worth of boat under him. Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang and an outhaul feels apprehensive. There you will be, stuck on some molar of rock, the dummy of the Windward Islands. But to bridge the gap between the fumbling amateur and the moderately competent seaman, C.S.Y. has its "sail-'n'-learn" program. An instructor is put on board: a local sailor...
...American is primarily involved in flying supplies to the CIA's guerilla army, the Clandestine Army of Meo tribesmen led by General Vang Pao. Recently, due to expanded CIA operations, Continental Air Services, a division of Continental Airways, has also been flying supplies...