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...proportion of its officers are new to the job. More than half (58%) have less than three years of service; more than a third (36%) have less than 18 months and are still on probationary appointments. Many may not be sufficiently trained or experienced to handle racial incidents or employ minimal force when violence is threatened. Four blacks have been killed by policemen in the past three months...
...This is true: at last count there were 14.7 million businesses and 12 million unemployed. However, more than 11 million of the businesses were proprietorships, most of which employ only a few people...
...clubs, journalists and diplomats slug back their Scotch and try to forget that the good imperial days have vanished into Third World arrogance. Among the Caucasians are Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson), one of the Australian correspondents, and Jill Bryant (Sigourney Weaver), a glamorous mystery woman in the employ of the British embassy. Helping them fall in love, and more than a little in love with them both, is Billy Kwan (Linda Hunt), a dwarfish man who works as a photographer and functions as an all-knowing tipster. Nothing is simple here on the outskirts of Graham Greeneland, where conscientious Westerners...
Environmentalists complained that the bill limits judicial review, glosses over technological difficulties and excludes various stages of site selection from tough environmental scrutiny. The bill does not endorse any particular storage technology, but the most likely approach will employ long, narrow metal canisters, to be loaded with spent fuel, embedded deep in the rock of large (2,000-acre) manmade caverns, then completely covered over. Aboveground, a typical waste burial site is expected to look something like a mining operation. The method of waste transport is also an issue unaddressed by the bill. The preferred mode is by train...
...Great Society legislation was a noble achievement (though the programs went wildly out of control). But the L.B.J. presidency is forever blighted by the tragic failure in Viet Nam. Richard Nixon was our best President of foreign policy since Eisenhower, not just because he had the wit to employ Dr. Kissinger, but his presidency will never recover from Watergate. The returns are not yet in on Jimmy Carter's foreign policy. His economic policies were an unsuccessful muddle; it is not yet clear that Reagan's very different policies will work out better...