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Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs) are the primary grassrooots organizations; there is one on each block of every Cuban city, town or village. Each block elects a steering committee of 11 that is responsible for maintaining public health and combatting educational truancy. The committees also are charged with a vague responsibility known as "vigilance," a system, critics say, that leads to neighbor spying upon neighbor...
...YORK--Residents of a Fifth Avenue luxury building sued on Wednesday to block former President Richard M. Nixon from buying an apartment, alleging the presence of the Secret Service would disrupt their "quiet lives...
...economics have been ravaged by the war, would also welcome peace, but politically they have too much at stake to end the war for a shabby settlement. The present Zimbabwe constitution--in which whites control the courts, military, police and civil service, hold enough guaranteed parliamentary seats to block constitutional changes, and receive an even more disproportionate share of seats in the Cabinet--must be totally overhauled. (A constitutional solution acceptable to the front-line states would undoubtedly bring prizes of recognition and trade, and the lifting of United Nations economic sanctions in place since...
Even when Harvard is on its best behavior, though, people tend naturally to point to it as the cause of any trouble, Brewer says. "Harvard is a sitting target, the biggest boy on the block," he said...
...miles) of what appears to be a previously undiscovered moon* with a diameter as large as 600 km (370 miles). "The object was very close," says Physicist John Simpson of the University of Chicago. "It could be rocky or composed largely of ice. Either material will effectively block high energy particles." The moonlet, in orbit about 90,000 km (56,000 miles) above Saturn's cloud tops, was nicknamed "Pioneer rock" by the scientists, and it is being officially designated as 1979 S-l (for the first new moon of Saturn discovered this year...