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Suddenly the pious atmosphere was shattered. Two young men who had been loitering outside, posing as tourists, pulled out Polish-made submachine guns and shot the custodian at the gate. Shouting in Arabic, they burst into the sanctuary, dropped an iron bar across the door to block it and, standing ten yards apart, began strafing the congregation. Shopkeepers nearby, just opening their stores or stalls for business, listened in horror to the rattle of gunfire and the screams of the dying. "I heard gunshots," said one bystander. "Then I saw a young man with injured feet come out yelling...
...drastically scarce bed space for mental patients, swollen numbers of disturbed homeless people roaming the streets of America's cities, and forbidding legal constraints against forced institutionalization. In Onalaska, Wis., last year, a 30-year-old man shot to death a priest, a lay minister and a church custodian during a mass. He had been released from a Michigan mental-health institution, where he had been committed after several prior assaults. But Wisconsin's laws and those of many other states would not allow him to be involuntarily committed...
...talented younger colleague. An operation seems in order. Whether it succeeds or not, the patient wants to explain to her only child, Bayard, 16, the son of her second marriage, why his parents broke up and why his once aristocratic father, Pinkham Strong, has become the alcoholic custodian of a secondhand-clothes shop in lower Manhattan...
...those used by Gromyko in recent months. Surmises Jerry Hough, a Soviet specialist at Duke University: "Gorbachev is linking himself to the foreign policy of Gromyko." That dependence could weaken as Gorbachev gains greater experience in world affairs, but for the moment Gromyko is viewed not only as the custodian of Moscow's foreign policy but also as its chief architect. One result, says Soviet Expert Dimitri Simes from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington: "Gromyko is going to be a major power broker...
...Illinois, the first state to deal specifically with IVF, the legislature decided in 1979 to make any doctor who undertakes such a procedure the legal custodian of the embryo-and liable for possible prosecution under an 1877 law against child abuse. The result was that many Illinois doctors, though not specifically forbidden to perform IVF, refused to do so. The state attorney general said that most simple IVF procedures would not violate the law, so a number of doctors went ahead. Still, one couple, identified as John and Mary Smith, who have been married for nine years and have...