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...basically get all the calls [from all over campus] and send out either a mechanic or put in a work order to have work done. Plus we monitor all kinds of alarms, fire alarms, computers, we dispatch all kinds of people, we page people," Remaly said. "It's a center for communications and it's a central location for all kinds of emergencies...
Instead, Ferrato has become a determined witness, riding in police cars, visiting hospital emergency rooms, living in women's shelters and prisons. Her book, Living with the Enemy (Aperture; 1991), is a chilling dispatch from the front lines of domestic warfare. Ferrato is battling abuse in other ways as well. She founded the Domestic Abuse Awareness Project to educate the public and raise funds for shelters. "I won't stop until women and children feel safe," says Ferrato. Another measure of her dedication: she paid $4,000 at a recent charity auction for the opportunity to have tea later this...
Each attempt to find a solution to the exiles' predicament -- or at least to provide them temporary relief -- was going nowhere. France offered to dispatch doctors to check the health of the men, who were deported for allegedly inciting Muslim fundamentalist violence. Both Israel and Lebanon, which refuses to absorb the exiles, said no. Israel said it would let the Red Cross ferry relief supplies to the group through Israeli-controlled southern Lebanon if the Lebanese would permit a simultaneous shipment through their territory. Beirut said no. Visiting U.N. Under Secretary-General James Jonah wasn't even allowed...
When the Khmer Rouge announced in June that they would not allow the U.N. into their areas, some U.N. officers wanted to call their bluff and dispatch forces into the territory. But force commander Lieut. General John Sanderson felt such pressure might destroy the peace process, and most of the countries that had contributed troops would not let them be sent into battle against the Khmer Rouge. The disagreement highlighted a U.N. dilemma: When should peacekeeping become peace enforcing -- perhaps with the loss of peacekeepers' lives...
...advise prosecutors and a federal judge that the agency possessed a cache of classified cables relating to the case. Late last week, according to the New York Times and the Washington Post, CIA officials testified in closed hearings that a senior Justice Department official had pressured them to dispatch the misleading letter. The CIA and Justice denied the reports. Said the Justice official in question, Laurence Urgenson, a Deputy Assistant Attorney General: "I can't pressure the CIA. I can't even get them to return my phone calls...