Word: commitments
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...already dodging complaints that his quiet, cautious manner -- deemed an asset during last fall's election campaign -- was not well suited to leading the fight against crime. With budgetary constraints frustrating his efforts to fulfill a campaign promise to expand the force, the mayor consistently refused to commit himself to a specific number before receiving a manpower report from police commissioner Lee Brown on Oct. 1. Cuomo's address, and a growing sense of crisis, forced Dinkins at last to announce that an additional 3,000 to 6,000 police would be hired. "If the broader message has not been...
...shock of Watkins' death was intensified by the venality of its alleged motive. According to police, the suspects are members of F.T.S. (an abbreviated obscenity), a Queens youth gang that requires its members to commit a mugging as an initiation rite. They were reportedly trying to raise cash to finance an evening of frolicking at Roseland, a nearby dance hall, where six suspects were arrested. Two others were rounded up later...
Thus it came as a welcome surprise when a majority of Arab states voted late last week to commit troops to a pan-Arab force and to honor the worldwide U.N. economic embargo against Iraq. At an emergency session of the Arab League in Cairo, 12 of the 20 delegations agreed "to respond to the request by Saudi Arabia and other gulf states to deploy Arab forces to support the armed forces there." Significantly, their numbers included Egypt and Syria, which have two of the Middle East's largest armies. Algeria and Yemen abstained, while Jordan, Sudan and Mauritania expressed...
...global Neighborhood Watch had better develop -- at least to counter this particular bogeyman. As extraordinary as the harmony of world reaction was, the circumstances that created it were equally improbable. It is not often that the world produces a dictator who so blatantly disregards the laws of civility to commit such an overt, unambiguous act of aggression against a peaceful neighbor that poses no security threat whatsoever. It is rare that a victim's fortunes are so directly tied to the health of the Western economies. And it is more unusual still that the aggressor rules an all but landlocked...
...athletes -- or of sports in general. Traditionally, athletics has been viewed as a healthy outlet for natural male aggressions. But the spate of assaults has many people convinced that today's athletic environment encourages sexual violence. Reliable statistics are hard to come by concerning the number of players who commit antisocial acts, sexual or otherwise, and many experts argue that male athletes are no more prone to violence than the general male population. Still, a three-year survey completed for the National Institute of Mental Health discovered that athletes participated in about a third of 862 sexual attacks on campus...