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...cold war. In 1986 there were 27,783 reported cases of violence in military families; last year there were 46,287. Now, a confidential -- and unprecedented -- Army survey obtained by TIME suggests that spousal abuse is occurring in one of every three Army families each year -- double the civilian rate. Each week someone dies at the hands of a relative in uniform, and nearly 1,000 formal complaints of injury are lodged against family members in the service. Untold thousands may suffer in silence...
...block of mud-brick houses. Twenty-five residents were killed in their sleep, their bodies scattered amid crumbled masonry and shreds of wicker baskets. Later, as bulldozers pushed away the rubble, workers trained fire hoses on the angry crowd to disperse it. The casualties were the first known civilian deaths in a violent struggle for power between two rival political leaders that has ruptured the four-year-old union between North and South Yemen...
...advantage of the help, and the worst abusers don't participate. Researcher Peter Neidig, whose company, Behavioral Science Associates in Stony Brook, New York, is conducting the Army survey, believes similar levels of domestic abuse exist in the other services. While Neidig believes the Army is ahead of the civilian world in confronting the issue, Army officials admit they are only starting to understand the extent of the problem. "We were being very reactionary," explains Delores Johnson, who heads the service's program to combat such abuse. Rather than trying to prevent it, the Army emphasized medical and legal help...
...mail. More than a third of all U.S. workers have their paychecks directly deposited into their bank accounts, compared with 8% in 1988. Almost half of the Federal Government's annual budget is transferred electronically -- to pay the salaries of 1.9 million people (or 86% of its civilian payroll) as well as benefits for war veterans and subsidies for farmers. This year the Internal Revenue Service will send refunds to the bank accounts of 10.5 million taxpayers, 7% more than last year. And in the private sector, computers are now handling 10% of the $50 billion in money transfers between...
...Commander Michael Rose calls in air strikes around Gorazde, but the U.N.'s chief civilian representative in Bosnia, Yasushi Akashi, preferring negotiation, vetoes them. When air strikes are called again and finally approved by the U.N. bureaucrats, NATO planes are foiled by weather, and a British Sea Harrier jet is shot down. The pinprick attacks fail even to achieve the minimal logic of tit for tat. They become tit for tat -- when the weather is good and Akashi is in the mood...