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...Abandon all substance, ye who enter here. This is the realm of television, not politics. Issues are passe. What matters is style and image, sound bites and photo opportunities...
...knows how many, are alcoholics and drug abusers. "Over the past two years, the number of multiply addicted homeless has grown at a tremendous rate," says Anita Beaty, director of the Task Force for the Homeless in Atlanta. "People don't choose to panhandle because they want to abandon their responsibilities; other causes come first." In New York, particularly, many residents consider crack to be one reason for the sudden appearance of so many young, angry, able-bodied panhandlers all over town. The most aggressive and abusive of the city's beggars often appear to be strung out on drugs...
...chemical weapons, the Iraqis have relied increasingly over the past four years on mustard gas, and possibly cyanide gas and nerve agents as well, to combat Iranian forces. Chemical weapons, dubbed "that hellish poison" by Winston Churchill, weighed heavily in Iran's abrupt decision last month to abandon the fight against Iraq and pursue a cease-fire. No matter when peace is finally achieved, the use of chemical weapons will remain a lasting legacy of the war, and its consequences will be debated by the international community for years to come. Says Julian Robinson, an expert on chemical weapons...
...growing Anglican churches in Africa and Asia had differing views on women but united to confront the West on other issues. The most striking example was a decision to end long-standing church teaching against the baptism of polygamists. The Africans said the traditional stand cruelly forced converts to abandon their plural wives. Now converts in polygamous societies will be allowed to keep their wives if they forswear further marriages...
Despite some mitigating language crammed at the last moment into the bill's 238 clauses, some scholars fear that they may be forced to abandon innovative research to comply with government priorities. "Universities will no longer ; be autonomous corporations of scholars but servants of the government," says Elie Kedourie, professor of politics at the University of London. He adds scornfully, "It's really quite absurd for the government to think you can treat a university like a factory...