Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time when his popularity has climbed to new heights abroad, Gorbachev must fend off growing attacks at home from two fronts: what he calls the "adventurists" and the "reactionaries." Last week the Soviet leader took on the adventurist radicals, criticizing them for racing "like firemen, with clanging bells" to abolish the constitutional guarantee of Communist Party rule. The Congress decided not to take up the contentious question of Article 6, voting 1,138 to 839, with 56 abstentions. But the margin of victory was not so comfortable that the Kremlin could indefinitely ignore the East European-like rush to multiparty...
Rescuers, despite being trained to cope with disaster, may be particularly troubled by the grim sights and smells. "I don't care how professional your firemen and policemen are," says Jim Worlund, an Oakland emergency planner, referring to an amputation performed on a victim on the collapsed Nimitz Freeway, "that's hard to live with." Dr. Edward McCarroll of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington last year conducted a survey of 150 military and civilian personnel who participated in rescue efforts at military disasters. He found that many were overwhelmed when they discovered a body that resembled...
...financial stress worsened dramatically in April last year when city assets were temporarily frozen after East St. Louis failed to begin payment on a $3.4 million judgment arising from the beating of one local jail inmate by another in 1984. The city is now beset with dozens of lawsuits. Firemen have sued successfully to collect three years of back uniform allowances, only to be told that the award left no money in the till to pay their salaries. A bill making its way through the state legislature will erase the deficit in the current budget and finally...
...development of highly mobile medical teams has shortened the international response time when disaster strikes. Within 72 hours after a catastrophic earthquake hit Soviet Armenia early last month, the French government and volunteer organizations dispatched the first of nearly 700 trained personnel, including doctors, firemen and experts in excavation techniques, to assist the victims. The effort was eventually joined by scores of countries around the world...
...years no one officially questioned the Malones' self-proclaimed blackness. Then in February the twins were put on a list of blacks among firemen proposed for promotion to lieutenant. The list went to fire commissioner Leo Stapleton. He knew the Malones were the department's only identical twins, and if they weren't white, it was news to him. Stapleton asked the state's department of personnel administration to check out the twins' status. The emerging issue was pointedly expressed by black city councilman Bruce Bolling: "How could twins with Irish names, Caucasian features and no black identification from...