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...economic policies. Faced with a shattered economy that makes Russia's look robust, Lukashenko has pushed for integration with Russia, which in any case supplies Belarus with everything from cheap fuel to tractor parts. For his part, Yeltsin hopes that swallowing up Belarus and extending Russia's borders westward could provide a counterweight to a rapidly encroaching NATO. The new entity will be governed by a bureaucrat-bloated "Supreme Council" featuring the two presidents, their prime ministers, parliament heads and the chairman of a vaguely defined "Executive Committee." The deal fuels speculation that Lukashenko is seeking...
GOMA, Zaire: Rwandan refugees and displaced Zairians began flocking toward home today as if the doors to their cells suddenly had been flung open, and across the world, diplomats were crossing their fingers. A Tutsi offensive had driven Hutu forces westward into Zaire, potentially forcing the Hutu militias to relinquish control of the bursting Mugunga refugee camp that has served as a barren purgatory to more than 1 million people, and as cover for thousands of militiamen hiding from their enemies. A significant exodus would greatly ease the need for the U.N. humanitarian and military intervention that has been hurriedly...
...north to Tennessee, with isolated pockets even farther north -- there's a colony, for example, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Most of the West Coast, from Southern California up to Vancouver, British Columbia, would make fine fire-ant habitat as well. And while the moisture-loving insects can't spread westward through arid reaches of West Texas on their own, they don't have to. Fire ants have been known to hitch rides on truckloads of produce, nursery stock and even industrial chemicals. According to Richard Patterson, a U.S. Department of Agriculture entomologist based at the University of Florida, infestations...
...TIME editor Karsten Prager's account of his family's journey to freedom in the last days of the war [MEMOIRS, May 15]. Few remember that the Third Reich spread a blanket of suffering over everyone -- victors as well as vanquished. Like Prager's family, mine fled westward from advancing Russian troops. When my mother escaped with her four underage children, there were only cattle cars available on the last train. Like Prager, I spent time in refugee camps. With a Polish father, a German mother and a grandfather named Abram, "Germans" such as us were about as responsible...
...driver was a big, red-faced staff sergeant who spoke rarely and was nearly deaf. His name was Peise. Mother eventually told me that Peise was in Father's outfit and that Father had asked him to pick us up after the truck was ordered westward. What Peise's real mission was -- if any -- no one knew. It seemed strange that he had orders to go west when the Wehrmacht needed every man in the east. The sergeant shed no light on the question. He drove the truck with singular determination, fatigue cap pushed into his neck, submachine gun slung...