Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Staff members at Carville illustrate the low threat of infection even from frequent contact. No one working there has ever contracted leprosy, though fears of contagion were once so great that certain areas of the institution were placed strictly off-limits to patients. In those days patients used to joke about walking into administrative buildings to see who would jump out the windows...
Another reason that diplomats and embassies are increasingly frequent targets of violence is that the attacks often succeed. Embassy invasion is fast becoming in the '80s what skyjacking was in the '70s. Says Brian Jenkins, the Rand Corp.'s specialist on terrorism: "The generally harder line toward other forms of international terrorism has not applied to the taking over of diplomatic missions. There is mounting evidence that terrorists may have shifted to diplomatic missions, where they are less likely to face assault...
...world's diplomats are rightfully worried. According to a new report by the Rand Corp., there have been 42 terrorist assaults on diplomatic missions since 1971; almost half of them have taken place in the past two years. Egyptian and American missions have been the most frequent targets of these assaults (five apiece). Attacks have occurred in 25 countries-eight in El Salvador alone. The adjacent columns present a chronology, in text and pictures, of some of these assaults...
...champ still survives frequent confrontations with Cosell, but now the question is: Can Ali still roll off the punches of the top heavyweight fighters of the world? Cosell only throws big words; Larry Holmes throws big fists...
...Somerset Maugham become a master of self-defense? Previous biographies contain partial answers and frequent obfuscations. The aged author not only burned much of his correspondence before he died but also misled many writers about his life. One academic produced an entire book without ever suspecting that his subject was homosexual...