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Truesdale added that his group's "move away from a political focus to one that is more humanitarian" led the committee to support the early winter fast for the first time, and that the committee hoped to enlist the support of other undergraduate organizations...

Author: By Lynn C. Jackson, | Title: Winter Fast Proceeds to Aid Oxfam's Salvadoran Refugees | 11/20/1981 | See Source »

...suspicious, keep looking back, and try to put space between you and the follower. If he crosses the street as well, turn around to look, taking note of the sex, size, and features of the person. If he persists, scream, run to a well-lit business or residence, enlist a passerby, flag down a motorist, pick up an emergency blue-light phone, attract attention in the best...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Securing the Ivory lower | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...stories aired at least twice every hour, and sports, weather and short features tucked in between. "Give us 18 minutes," Satellite NewsChannels boasts, "and we'll give you the world." Satellite NewsChannels will carry film footage from ABC News but will not enlist the network's on-camera correspondents. Using four of the Group W stations and a mini-network of other local stations around the country, the new channel will also produce a five-minute segment each hour of local and regional news, a bonus that CNN does not provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: One-Two Punch | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...enlist the armed forces in the war on drugs, the Administration proposes modifying the 100-year-old posse comitatus (literally "power of the county") statutes that bar military involvement in civilian law enforcement. The Senate and House are expected to agree on a bill that will create a new and potent drug-fighting arsenal, including the use of military spy planes, satellite surveillance and sophisticated radar equipment. The House version would even give the Navy the right to board and seize drug-laden vessels outside U.S. territorial waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reinforcements in the Drug War | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...week. Pinkerton's kept detective reports anonymous, so exactly what Hammett did in the line of duty cannot be checked. He later claimed that he was once sent out to find the thief who had stolen a Ferris wheel. He left Pinkerton's after three years to enlist in the Army, but less than a year later he was discharged, severely disabled with tuberculosis. He went West, married a nurse he met during one of his hospitalizations and did part-time work for Pinkerton's offices in Spokane and San Francisco. But his poor health made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: He Was His Own Best Whodunit | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

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