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...Police say Barnett drew a .22-cal. revolver. The bullet he fired struck De- mont in the head. The boy was rushed to Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center, where the average daily admissions to the trauma center include four gunshot wounds, three stabbings and three cases of "blunt assault" to the head. Demont died on the operating table. For Dr. Arthur W. Fleming, the chief of surgery, it was nothing new. "This is the closest thing to a combat hospital that you'll find in peacetime," he says...
...government has reacted to even the mildest episodes of unrest by calling out legions of police. After responding to the worldwide condemnation of apartheid by hinting that genuine reform was on the way, it abruptly reversed itself in Botha's blunt reaffirmation of the present system. It fought a school boycott in the black township of Soweto two weeks ago by arresting more than 700 black youngsters, many of them no more than eight or ten years old. Last week, when Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu's son Trevor, 29, expressed his indignation that a nine-year-old was being brought...
...that the U.S. legal system protects the nation's traditional values. To progressives, he is an overreaching ideologue intent on using the Justice Department to dismantle two decades of legal advances. After just six months in office, Edwin Meese has proved to be one of the most blunt-spoken and activist Attorneys General since the New Deal. At his ceremonial swearing-in last March, the country's chief lawyer made his new role clear: "This department will be fiercely independent in . . . upholding the law. But this is not inconsistent with conscientiously and vigorously implementing the President's philosophy, which...
...next day. After graduating from a Missouri Bible college as an ordained Baptist minister, he started the Thomas Road Church in Lynchburg and began to broadcast his services on radio. Within a year his membership jumped from 35 to nearly a thousand. Falwell was a smooth storyteller and his blunt, biting tongue gave his Fundamentalist listeners a new sense of confidence. He thundered against adultery, drinking and premarital sex. He built his church audience with a series of stunts, importing Christian karate experts to smash blocks of ice in front of the congregation and exhibiting the "world's tallest Christian...
...borrowing spree. "The coming of age of the baby boomers," says Henry Kaufman, chief economist for Wall Street's Salomon Brothers, "is altering the relationship between consumer credit and income, reflecting this group's greater acceptance of credit." Terry Blaney, president of Houston's Consumer Credit Counseling Service, is blunt: "We have a whole generation of people who have been raised with high expectations. Couple that with all the advertising we see, and you've got a lot of materialistic people. There has to be an adjustment in attitude about credit...