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...century. But then snow and freezing rain began on Tuesday. More snow fell on Wednesday. And the day after. In Atlanta, which does not have a single municipal snowplow, the first flurries appeared at the beginning of the afternoon rush hour, and immediately prompted an even more chaotic commuter scramble. Peachtree Street, the city's main thoroughfare, was hopelessly jammed until midnight with stalled and sliding cars. Mused one former Chicagoan: "I feel a little ridiculous being snowbound in 1 ½ in. of snow." Many motorists simply abandoned their cars. But Virginia Lichlyter, a graduate student at Georgia State...
...City rattled last week to an increasingly familiar sound: the blast of terrorist bombs. Local residents merely shrugged off the dynamitings-and that in itself is a sign of how life is changing for the worse in the most populous (7.5 million) and richest country in Central America. A chaotic, four-year confrontation between government and Marxist guerrilla forces is entering a new and deadly phase, one that is escalating on both sides...
What has happened over the long years is that chaos has become normal, and in its normality lies a basic feature of a child's life in Belfast. Alexander Lyons, a Belfast psychiatrist, points out that in a chaotic world, antisocial behavior is acceptable. That is why he finds so little of what might be termed "emotional disturbance," in the clinical sense, among the Belfast children, since, in a way, the whole place is emotionally disturbed. The kids play war games, but there is nothing unique in that. Indeed, their war games are made more normal by the fact that...
...thrive in countries that are economically underdeveloped and chaotic, socially decaying and often in or near a state...
...main lesson of the long, chaotic weekend was that the budgetmaking machinery of the Government had broken down. "The process stinks," said House Republican Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi. House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois derided the deadline jockeying as a "flimflam." The experience, said Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, was a "political nightmare...