1. In West Africa the formation of a new government in Monrovia ushered in prospects for an end to five years of fighting and the return of 794,000 Liberian refugees.
2. A major impediment to return and rehabilitation—as was the case also in Angola, Cambodia, and Mozambique—was the presence of indiscriminately sown land mines.
3. The United States issued guidelines to help immigration officers grant asylum to women who were threatened with sexual violence. The new guidelines did not change the criteria needed for refugee status but rather educated asylum officers about gender-based discrimination and provided them with procedures and methods for evaluating refugee standards for individual claims.
4, The cigarette-selling cowboy may be under siege back home in the United States from lawmakers and health advocates determined to put him out of business, but half a world away in Asia he is prospering, his all-American mug slapped up on billboards and flickering across television screens. And Marlboro cigarettes have never been more popular.