Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your article "New Danger in the Wilderness" [Aug. 16], pot growing is mentioned along with such crimes as murder, rape and robbery. Surely a story on crimes like satanic disembowelment of animals, assault and dead-body dumping should not include the cultivation of a plant that is consumed by 25.5 million Americans and that one week earlier you noted was the fourth largest cash crop in America. The only crime committed by the marijuana growers is the profit accrued and the taxes not paid...
...Reagan Administration went to considerable lengths to assure both Congress and the American public that U.S. troops were in no real danger. Reagan explained that the Marines would play "a crucial role in achieving the peace that is so desperately needed in this long-tortured city." The President alluded to the fact that, 24 years ago, a force of 14,000 Marines had been sent to Lebanon by Dwight Eisenhower to support a beleaguered government, and that they had suffered a few casualties. This time, declared the President, "I want to emphasize that there is no intention or expectation that...
...function. The King handled his interrogators skillfully. To identify with, if not coopt, Palestinian rage over events in Lebanon, the King called for the creation of a People's Army, a sort of militia of all Jordanians, both men and women, trained to defend the country. Considering the danger that such an army could turn against its creator, it was a risky proposal...
There are those who think senility, or at least softheadedness, may have already arrived with the strong and healthy look. "Women are in danger of turning in on themselves, becoming emotionally muscle-bound," says Jon Wilkman, a Los Angeles producer of documentaries for cable TV. "We've entered an age of mental and physical narcissism. Originally, man built a strong body to do work. Now women are building their bodies just to look good. Is that enough? Does beauty stop at the skin line? For this kind of woman, it does. She will be sitting alone, in an empty room...
...Jordan, perhaps, that faces the greatest danger from the new alignment of Middle East forces. King Hussein, a memher of the Hashemite dynasty,* presides uneasily over a population that is 60% Palestinian. In deference to that predominant group, Hussein has agreed to accept some 1,500 P.L.O. members who hold Jordanian passports. But the King cannot be enthusiastic about the return of a guerrilla group that he brutally attacked and ousted from Jordan in 1971 after some of its factions tried to overthrow his government. Nor can Hussein be reassured by the knowledge that Israel's Sharon has long...