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...Turkish rule over the Slavic nation. Since the resignation of Stalinist dictator Todor Zhivkov last November, that statue has become the rallying point for a revived nationalist movement using the old hatred of the Turks to fight new political battles. Day after day, thousands of Bulgarians ignored sub-zero temperatures to gather around it. They shook their fists and cheered rabble-rousing speeches protesting a decision by the country's new reformist government to restore to 1.2 million ethnic Turks the civil and religious rights they lost in 1984. "Turks to Turkey!" they roared. "Bulgaria for the Bulgarians...
Hughes evened up the perfect-game tally with a shutout of Yale--matching Roy's blanking of Cornell earlier this season--and gained more ground in the point-scoring column with an assist Friday, giving him two points to Roy's zero...
From the spectacular mountain setting of McMurdo Station, Lemonick flew 800 miles to the South Pole, a featureless expanse of white that stretches to the horizon. "We arrived at 2 a.m. on a brilliantly sunny night," he recalls. "They were having a heat wave -- ten below zero, the record high for the year." Lemonick was relieved to return to the relatively mild climes of McMurdo Station, where the temperatures hovered in the 30s. He might have enjoyed McMurdo even more had he known what was waiting for him back in New York City: a cold snap, with temperatures dipping into...
Even where crops were not affected, the cold struck a blow at agriculture by snarling transportation. On the Mississippi River, barges were frozen north of Cairo, Ill. The sub-zero temperatures hit midway through the biggest single delivery of corn -- 11 million tons -- to the Soviet Union. Some 6 million tons had already been shipped from Gulf ports, but the rest was still in storage in elevators along the Mississippi...
...factored in an ideological multiplier. Here was a political system that, seen from the outside, seemed to have a flat belly, a thick neck, big biceps and plenty of intestinal fortitude; it was also thought to have, in communism, a coherent and all too plausible plan for winning the zero-sum game of history...