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...hysteria about drugs heightens, though, we would all do well to heed the words of Judge H. Lee Sarokin, who recently ruled that 16 New Jersey firemen suspended after failing surprise urine tests had to be reinstated, at least temporarily: "No matter how important war against crime and drugs, constitutional rights must not be sacrificed to win those battles...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Propaganda Whiz | 8/15/1986 | See Source »

...help. Two weeks ago Hammer became the first known nonmedical Westerner to meet with those hospitalized by the disaster. Accompanied by Gale, Hammer visited Kiev's Hospital 14, where 259 Chernobyl victims have been treated, and talked with two heroes, S.T. Milgevsky and N.E. Fedorenko, bus drivers who ferried firemen and workers to and from the reactor area after the explosion. Why did they do it? Hammer asked. "Someone had to," they replied. Would they do it again? "Sure." Hammer also met V.D. Dznenko, who had been visiting her daughter in the area at the time of the accident. Afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 11, 1986 | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...cabbie for directions. The cabbie told him he could not explain how to get to the hotel, but for a fee he would lead him. Disgusted, the explorer drove on and, coming to a fire station, parked his Hertz car in the driveway and refused to move until the firemen agreed to tell him where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: Hard Driving | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...Angeles' 60-year-old landmark Central Library had long suspected that the four towers containing most of the library's books were potential chimney flues. The towers turned out to be just that as a conflagration engulfed the largest library in the West last week. More than 250 firemen fought the blaze for more than six hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: Smoke in the Stacks | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...better yet, it runs up against a brick wall: how can the quiet rationality of a policy investigation make sense of police who machine gun like gangsters, a city that drops a bomb on itself, firemen who start fires and watch them burn? The whole thing is a demonic inversion...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: Goode's Jury | 4/12/1986 | See Source »

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