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...most determined fighters in the camps are the medical commandos of the International Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, the French relief agency that dispatches physicians and instant field hospitals to the world's most vicious war zones. They are fighting the spread of one killer after another: cholera, dysentery, measles, even, some U.N. workers fear, bubonic plague...
...government's greatest challenge will be in persuading the Hutu to return. About 350,000 in the Tanzanian camps have so far failed to do so, despite relative peace in eastern Rwanda. The rebels claim -- with some accuracy -- that they have been held back by members of the same vicious anti- Tutsi militias that last month threatened to execute aid workers who refused to feed or house a notorious war criminal. A useful first step in luring them back would be the silencing of the interim government's radio station, which continue to air anti-Tutsi propaganda...
...Denver, for one, is determined to head off a reprise of last year, when a string of vicious youth crimes unhinged the city's calm. The upshot is an activities budget of $6 million, twice the amount allotted a year ago. Recreation programs -- from swimming and camping to video production -- have grown from 900 last year to 1,300 this summer...
...state -- by implication, America -- that he did for Luman Reed at the then immense price of $5,000. It was meant, he said, to show "the natural changes of Landscape and those effected by Man in his progress from Barbarism to Civilization -- to the state of Luxury -- to the vicious state or state of Destruction etc." He stirred in all manner of different cultures in this pastiche. The Pastoral or Arcadian State, for instance, has references to early Hesiodic Greece coexisting with a temple based on Stonehenge; and the climactic paintings of The Consummation of Empire and Destruction...
...restaurant in the Russian capital pays protection money of up to 20% of gross receipts to organized crime. Resisters are beaten or killed. "In my 17 years on patrol," says police Lieut. Gennadi Groshikov, "I have never seen so much crime in Moscow; nor have I seen anything as vicious...