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  The Winds of Chernobyl

OUR TASK IN BELARUS was to visit  Professor Yuri Bandazhevsky, a pathologist who had been given an 8-year sentence on highly questionable charges of accepting bribes from his students . . .                  
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  Beirut on the brink

THE ARMOURED CARS OF LEBANON'S
fragile army stood at the corners of Beirut’s now super-chic Downtown area as the city braced itself for explosions.                                                            MORE             



 
Gaza’s End-Game

TAKEN BY AHMED, one of our radio trainees, to lunch with his family in Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp, I saw an old man, shrouded in a white bernous and sleeping on the clay ledge of an alley . . . .                              
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  Jerusalem under occupation

ON SUNDAY I WALKED
by night from the dead, stone streets of shrinking Arab East Jerusalem across the green line to the bright lights and discos of Israeli West Jerusalem...    
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     The murder of Sheikh Yassin

ISRAEL'S ASSASSINATION IN GAZA of Hamas's spiritual leader, the quadriplegic and half-blind Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, is a dire omen, above all for Palestinian moderates.                                                                      
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