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...militias behind most of the violence have close ties to the Indonesian military, and additional Indonesian soldiers sent to East Timor last week reportedly have turned a blind eye to militia violence. As a result, hundreds of East Timorese have been killed over the last week. Thousands have been driven from their homes. Dili, East Timor's capital, is a ghost town...
...measures [NATION, Aug. 23]. Now we have constant high-tech surveillance, security fences, uniforms... So what are we teaching our children? How to live in a police state. Undoubtedly these school-security measures are instituted out of fear. Concerns for our children's safety are well founded. In being driven by fears while forgetting to safeguard civil liberties, however, we may reach a time when the term "the land of the free and the home of the brave" no longer applies. TONY KALENAK Odessa, Texas...
...families. If two-thirds of the parents surveyed respond positively, administrators, teachers, parents and students work together to come up with a code or uniform, along with incentives, compliance measures and means for providing free uniforms to needy families. A dress policy, says Van Der Laan, must be "parent driven." Only then is a new policy likely to succeed...
...funny that in the technology-driven '90s, our idea of horror is a walk in the woods. DAVE DOUGLAS Summit...
...WHAT IT'S ABOUT] Novel about driven female attorney committed to solving two murders...