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...Williams incident, he had been set free on $2,500 bail (actual cost to Dean: $250) facing charges of sodomy and sexual abuse of his girlfriend's 15-year-old sister. Some black residents argue that the inability of the city's predominantly white police force to cope with crime in their areas also lies behind rage like Williams'. "You dial 911 and half the time the car won't come," says Councilman Collins. "I'm not indicting the police-there are just too many criminals, too much crime...
...rapid decline of the once mighty American steel industry has made messes out of thousands of lives. Workers who have lost their jobs must often cope not only with disruption and financial strain but also with intense emotional turmoil. One steelworker spent nine days in bed after being laid off. Some berate spouses, drink destructively, abuse children or even try to kill themselves. Wives sometimes become hysterical. One unemployed steelworker's family sought counseling because its child had stopped speaking...
...some ways, Zelig is just the latest dose of the standard Woody Allen potion. (Some of the more recent disasters like A Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy excepted.) The film focuses in on a New York neurotic Jew who bumbles along with one-liners trying to cope with his problems. Leonard Zelig's chief disorder is that he wants to be liked by everyone. It starts when he feels compelled to join in a discussion of Moby Dick although he has never read the book. Zelig's condition worsens until he assumes the characteristics of the people he is with...
...precisely to cope with doubts such as those expressed in Congress that Reagan two weeks ago appointed a twelve-man commission headed by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The commission's charter is to study all aspects of Central American policy and recommend a long-range plan judged capable of winning bipartisan support. But the momentum of events may not wait for the commission's report, and much of that momentum has been spurred by the Administration itself. Visiting Washington last week to get the commission organized, Kissinger announced plans to conduct a study so comprehensive that its conclusions...
Herman Kahn, who died last week at his home in Chappaqua, N.Y., of a heart attack at 61, was a mathematician, physicist, economist, weapons analyst and historian. But above all he was a provocateur in the sedate world of ideas, a futurist who attempted, in his own words, "to cope with history before it happens." He was a pioneer in using scientific and mathematical tools to project the future. With his 300-lb. bulk and a florid face framed by a tailored white beard, Kahn had a commanding presence that seemed to complement a mental and verbal vigor bordering...