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...Ndadaye, a Hutu and the country's first democratically elected President, after he threatened to bring an end to 30 years of Tutsi domination. The killing triggered an orgy of revenge; some 50,000 Burundians died in 1993 alone. It also spawned a Hutu rebellion--and a Tutsi army crackdown--which continues to this day. Though a coalition government, composed of senior politicians from both ethnic groups, was formed under international pressure in 1994, its members remain hamstrung by tribal loyalties, unable and often unwilling to stop the bloodshed. Observes a Western diplomat in Bujumbura: "There is total impunity. Everyone...
...reason"--except when the firing can be shown to be discriminatory on the basis of race, sex or religion. In addition, a few forms of "speech," such as displaying a union logo, are protected by the National Labor Relations Act, and the courts may decide this makes Caterpillar's crackdown illegal. But the general assumption is, any expansion of workers' rights would infringe on the apparently far more precious right of the employer to fire "at will." So the lesson for America's working people is: If you want to talk, be prepared to walk...
Unrelated to the report but near the top of Lewis's list was his crackdown on underage drinking at Harvard. Students and University Health Services (UHS) officials have been angered by reports that friends who take drunken friends to UHS have been disciplined unfairly...
...teens, Governor Pete Wilson has decided to make would-be statutory rapists think twice. Last summer he allocated $2.4 million to a pilot program for 16 counties to begin prosecuting men who engage in sex with underage girls, and this month Wilson pledged $6 million more for a statewide crackdown. "It's not macho to get a teenager pregnant," Wilson announced. "But if you lack the decency to understand that yourself, we'll give you a year to think about it in county jail...
While working for the National Security Council, Pipes witnessed the Soviet crackdown in Poland and assured government officials his native country would survive...