Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...zooms in on the face of a dead person's relative -- and stays there as the face dissolves in grief. Says Anne Seymour, public affairs director for the National Victim Center in Fort Worth: "Any time there is a yellow line, some journalists in the interest of news will cross over...
...recent years, however, the military's lock on that market has been challenged by groups as diverse as the Red Cross, Viet Nam veterans, CARE and the Quakers. These so-called peace recruiters now turn up regularly in school classrooms and at job fairs and career days across the country. Some seek to interest students in working for such organizations as the Peace Corps and VISTA, or help them find nonmilitary assistance for college. Others try to show those intent on military careers exactly what they are getting into. Many do all three. Says Lou Ann Merkle of the Central...
...ranking diplomat who most recently was the $200,000-a-year president of Kissinger Associates. The firm's global list of clients (including Britain's Midland Bank, South Korea's vast Daewoo Group and Hunt Oil projects in the Middle East) is so extensive that he may have to cross off entire continents to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Eagleburger, who would be in charge when Baker is out of the country, proposes to solve the problem by recusing himself from any decision affecting former clients, but that could leave him with a lot of time...
...packed Red Cross shelter a few miles from downtown Brownsville, the air is filled with the cries of babies and the smell of urine. Overcrowding and lack of sanitation in the area have contributed to an outbreak of hepatitis. Refugee advocates are infuriated by the Federal Government's inability to clear the bottleneck. Charges Roman Catholic Bishop John Fitzpatrick of the Brownsville diocese: "The INS is saying, 'Sorry, you can't leave to work, but we can't feed...
Justice attorneys apparently reflected alarm in the CIA and the National Security Agency over a January ruling by Gesell. The judge had said he would allow North to introduce some classified information "without benefit of a further ruling" and to bring in still more on cross-examination of Government witnesses "if the court finds it appropriate." To the security agencies, which generally object to declassification of any secrets whatever, that sounded like an open invitation to spill the beans on all sorts of potentially damaging (or at least embarrassing) information. They prevailed on Thornburgh to press Walsh to appeal...