Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue confident warnings about impending atmospheric disasters. The secret of their wizardry: sophisticated computer models, which are no more than mathematical representations of the world's climate and the conditions that scientists think may contribute to a specific phenomenon like, say, ozone depletion. Unfortunately, when all the variables are fed into the computer, the predictions can fail miserably to match reality...
...summer's violence has continued into the fall. The army recently occupied Raboteau, a large shantytown in the city of Gonaives. They arrested, detained and beat several people and terrorized Raboteau residents. Recently, Haitians in the countryside, fed up with army abuses and the lack of protection, have begun to retaliate. In Tabar, a small village just outside Port-au-Prince, a group of townspeople captured ten men who had repeatedly robbed and attacked the locals. In the ensuing melee, three of those captured were killed. Last Sunday several men burst into the living quarters of a Dutch priest...
...tome, Women and Love, a Cultural Revolution in Progress (Knopf; $24.95), is characteristically grandiose in scope, murky in methodology -- and right on target for commercial appeal. Having spent seven years analyzing a survey of the views of some 4,500 American women, Hite has concluded that they are fed up with the male of the species. "What is going on right now in the minds of women is a large-scale cultural revolution," writes Hite. "Over and over, women of all ages express their increasing emotional frustration and gradual disillusionment with their personal relationships with...
...decades after the first stirrings of the sexual revolution and women' s lib, the battle of the sexes rages on. In the latest of her provocative surveys on sex and love, Shere Hite depicts a new revolution at hand as women vent their frustration with modern relationships. Are women fed up? Or are things actually improving for both sexes, as Hite' s many critics attest? See SEXES...
...threw the spotlight on a younger, more dynamic figure: Prime Minister Karoly Grosz, 57, the former Budapest party leader, who assumed the post only two months ago. "Time is pressing. We cannot wait. We have to act," Grosz declared to loud applause from the 340 assembled Deputies. His performance fed speculation that he is the leading candidate to succeed Kadar, who has held power for 31 years...