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...Coast Guard sent cutters to St. Thomas topick up personnel and their families whose homeswere destroyed. It also was evacuating 200American medical students at Montserrat, a Britishcolony where Hugo damaged nearly 90 percent of thehomes...
...mailboxes of a few foreigners in Beijing last week read like one of the impassioned tracts circulated by Chinese students during their protests last spring. On closer scrutiny, however, the language was far harsher than anything the students ever wrote. Deng Xiaoping, the booklet charged, "is only an opportunist" whose "erroneous leadership" has betrayed "genuine Marxism-Leninism." Unlike the students, who castigated Deng for not carrying reforms far enough, the book accuses him of hurtling mindlessly down "the capitalist road." The solution: "Overthrow that handful of ambitious climbers and conspirators in the central party committee headed by Deng...
...conflicting, and sometimes violent, forces within his nation. On one side are the settlers and developers, often backed by corrupt politicians, who are razing the forests to lay claim to the land. On the other are hundreds of fledgling conservation groups, along with the Indian tribes and rubber tappers whose way of life will be destroyed if the forests disappear. The clash has already produced the world's most celebrated environmental martyr, Chico Mendes, a leader of the rubber tappers who was murdered for trying to stand in the way of ranchers...
...McAfee case comes at a time when the right-to-die issue is taking on new urgency in the U.S. Most such cases, unlike McAfee's, involve comatose patients whose families are seeking to withdraw life-support systems. This fall the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on such a situation for the first time when it considers the case of Nancy Cruzan, 32, a Missouri factory worker who has been in an irreversible vegetative state for six years. The court has been asked to decide whether there is a constitutional right of privacy broad enough to allow Cruzan's family...
...Maier was struck by how virtually everyone in the region, politician and peasant alike, knew that the Amazon was the subject of intense international debate. In speaking with one poor farmer near the Peruvian border, Maier reports, "As soon as I began asking questions, the farmer said to me, 'Whose side are you on, the environmentalists' or ours?' " That question, Maier knew, has no simple answer...