Word: attackable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike such drugs as barbiturates and opiates, which affect the nervous system, alcohol can attack virtually any of the body's cells. It can cause stunted growth, distorted faces, poor eyesight, learning disabilities and hyperactivity. In the recently published book The Broken Cord (Harper & Row; $18.95), author Michael Dorris tells the heartbreaking story of his adopted son Adam, whose Sioux parents died of alcohol abuse. Adam was institutionalized and diagnosed as retarded before he turned three. At five, he still wore diapers, could not count consecutively or even identify colors. "Adam's birthdays are reminders for me," writes Dorris...
Many employers have tried to attack the problem from two angles. Hoping to get better prices for service, companies have negotiated favorable rates for their employees at certain hospitals and health-maintenance organizations. To reduce outlays further, more than 70% of companies require employees to pay at least some of the costs of insuring themselves and their families; only 51% did so in 1984. Negotiators for Bell Atlantic want the company's employees, who currently pay a $150 deductible for nonhospital medical care, to take on a $150 deductible for hospitalization and an additional $200 deductible for any treatment outside...
Then there was Patriot Games, where Clancy's plucky hero Jack Ryan just happened to be in London in time to rescue two royals, seemingly Prince Charles and Lady Di, from a terrorist attack, and, of course, was rewarded with a knighthood from a grateful Queen. Call that just vacation fun compared with what Clancy pulled off in The Cardinal of the Kremlin. Not only did he virtually save the job of a reform-minded Soviet leader but he also spirited a defecting KGB chief onto Air Force One to fly to the land of freedom, opportunity...
...Estonian leadership has come under virulent attack from militant Russians for promoting legislation that gives priority to the language and culture of ethnic Estonians. Gorbachev may have taken a conciliatory approach with the nation's striking miners, but the authorities in Tallinn signaled last week that they were growing impatient with Russian agitators who have been using labor protests to press their demands. The authorities invoked a resolution recently passed by the Supreme Soviet in Moscow to ban the strike and issued a call for "common sense." As Popular Front leader Veidemann notes, "Our greatest danger lies in creating...
...terrorists holding the hostages stated their position the way they often do. In the southern Lebanese town of Qleia, houses shook from the blast of a bomb attack on an Israeli convoy that wounded five soldiers and one militiaman from the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army. "We'll show them that we are hard food to chew," proclaimed Hizballah's military chief in Beirut. Other terrorists sought revenge for the humiliation of Obeid's kidnaping...