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Uganda

Weekly Review

by Arno Kopecky,

The World Health Organization warned that outbreaks of cholera and dysentery resulting from a lack of clean drinking water could easily double the number of people killed by the Indian…

A burning plain. The United Nations Security Council passed another resolution asking the Sudanese government to prevent its proxies from slaughtering people in Darfur (China, Algeria, Pakistan, and Russia abstained).…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

Senator Pat Roberts, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, proposed eliminating the CIA, removing the National Security Agency from the Pentagon’s control, and creating three new spy agencies governed…

Midnight’s children

by Harper’s Staff,

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

Ten bombs blew up four commuter trains in Madrid during the morning rush hour on March 11, killing 200 people and wounding about 1,500. The Spanish government initially blamed Euskadi…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

More than 60 prominent scientists, including 20 Nobel prize winners and 19 winners of the National Medal of Science, denounced the Bush Administration for its systematic distortion of scientific facts…

Dangerous liaisons

by Harper’s Staff,

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

At a meeting of the Arab League in Beirut, the assembled leaders agreed to endorse Saudi Arabia’s proposal for peace with Israel, Iraq recognized Kuwait’s sovereignty and promised not to…

The U.N. strikes again

by Harper’s Staff,

Uganda

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Midnight’s children

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Dangerous liaisons

Weekly Review

The U.N. strikes again

February 1998

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