But when it came time to hear from Charest on the evening of the razor-thin federalist victory, Jean Chretien deliberately preempted his appearance on national television.

There are approximately 270,000 Lahu living in Yunnan (Beijing Review, 1980: 17), mostly near the Burmese border in the districts of Ssu-mao and Lin-ts'ang.

In their form, their liquid, droplike appearance, they distill the essence of this appalling summer.

You don't have to be a good climber for Kilimanjaro, but you do have to be fit.