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...Eksi, 18, as she was sitting by an open window in her parents' flat in West Berlin. "I felt a stab of pain in my right arm and screamed," she says. "They had to take me to the hospital to have the pellet removed." The police caught the culprit, a young German, who admitted responsibility. "He fired the gun at me because I was Turkish," said Nilguen. That incident occurred a year ago. More recently, Nilguen's mother Melahab, 39, was accosted in the street by a German youth waving a wooden club and shouting obscenities about foreigners...
...troubles with communications led to the loss of some experimental data. They also curtailed TV pictures and disrupted a ground-to-air press conference by cutting off reporters in Europe, where the flight has been big news. The major culprit was NASA's tracking and data-relay satellite, which can relay an encyclopedic 300 megabits per second. Although designed as Spacelab's main link with the ground, it still has not fully recovered from a faulty launch last April and is now capable of sending only a fraction of its ground-to-orbit capacity. These difficulties were compounded...
There was nothing inevitable about Dorothy Stratten's nightmare. The culprit in her case was not an evil system, but rather a society which fails to equip its young women with the facts and self-assertiveness necessary for them to make sensible decisions in a world that is free, but also harsh, hazardous, and confusing. Had Stratten recognized herself from the start as an individual with rights--despite her sex-kitten looks--she would have viewed herself as a corporation, instead of as an object of Snider's genuine affection. Indeed, a growing number of models and actresses (such...
...federal investigators claim to have been aware of skimming operations since the early 1960s. The process is simple: a culprit pockets some of the gambling proceeds and reports the income to be less than it actually was. The result is to bilk federal and state tax collectors of millions. FBI bugs, planted without court approval in executive offices at the casinos, turned up evidence of both the skimming and the Mob's not-so-secret control. But this evidence could not be used in court...
...this year's rash of cases? One likely culprit is the weather, says Dr. Jack Poland of the Centers for Disease Control's regional office in Fort Collins, Colo. Because of a particularly cool and wet spring, plague-carrying squirrels, prairie dogs and other rodents proliferated. So did the fleas that spread the disease to wild animals and eventually to humans...