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...contras' military performance. Their efforts to set up bases within the country have been stopped. They are not really well equipped, and they do not have much military capacity. About all they can do is go around assassinating technicians, teachers, students, civic workers, that kind of thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Destroy Our Own Revolution | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

Fingerprinting for children has won the backing of the FBI, state and local police, politicians, churches, schools, civic groups and businesses. In Waltham, Mass., 93% of the 4,600 grammar and junior high students have rolled their fingers on print cards at school since March. In Topeka, Kans., more than 8,000 youngsters, ages nine months to 17 years, have showed up at malls, churches, schools and scout troop meetings since Christmas to take advantage of the police-sponsored Ident-A-Kid program. On Mother's Day weekend, employees of Honeywell in Clearwater, Fla., brought 93 of their offspring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Frenzy of Fingerprinting | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...Nancy will be there to honor Hope and his wife of 48 years, Dolores. So will the third generation of pretty young TV women-Cheryl Tiegs, Christie Brinkley-who have smiled their way through Bob's corny on-screen advances. To a former vaudevillian who still works civic arenas littered with last night's hockey programs, this is class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The All-American Wisecracker | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci last night made a parliamentary move to reconsider a council vote last week that sent a CDD proposal that was amended by the council's liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) faction...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: Planning Board to Review Cambridgeport Proposals | 5/10/1983 | See Source »

Glorification of the Criminal and the Bizarre. "We put the funeral of the head of a biker gang on Page One and relegate the funeral of a civic leader to the death page . . . The readers don't like to see the actions of a few protesters being given front-page play. Too often they feel the opinions of the majority are given scant attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Why Readers Mistrust Newspapers | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

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