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...rest. You can only take so much." But the fact is that tension has been building for months in Brixton, home of many of the 620,000 black West Indians who have immigrated to Britain, or been born there, since the 1950s. As in the U.S., racial friction and unemployment often seem to go together: the jobless rate in areas like Brixton is twice Britain's 10.3% national average...
...separate investigations. Yet some of the circumstances are already known. Apparently, safety supervisors erred in clearing the technicians to go into the craft. Before a launch rehearsal, it is standard procedure to use nonflammable nitrogen to flush oxygen-laden air out of the engine compartment, where even the slightest friction or electrical spark can touch off a deadly fire. Afterward, the technicians, all of whom had considerable experience working with the shuttle, went into the nitrogen-saturated compartment without their air packs, the portable breathing systems used in hazardous atmospheres. Since nitrogen can neither be seen nor smelled, the five...
...recorded an increase in every violent category in 1980: murder up 27%, armed robberies 20%, burglaries 16%, rape 10%. Moans Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates: "It was the worst year ever in my 32 years as a police officer." Miami police, embattled by drugs, Cuban exiles and racial friction, admit they are losing the struggle against crime even with the addition of some 100 state troopers sent into Bade County to help. Homicides in Miami surged 60% in 1980; robberies rocketed 80% upward...
...sparks of their personal friction, Rabin and Peres have no significant ideological or policy differences. Both advocate tough budget cutting and tight foreign currency control to fight Israel's punishing triple-digit inflation. On matters of foreign policy, both want to maintain close relations with the U.S. and honor the Camp David agreements. Rabin and Peres subscribe to the "Jordanian" option, under which most of the occupied West Bank would revert to joint Jordanian-Palestinian control...
Everyone else did too; the team's friction with now departed coach Stephanie Walsh, the rumored friction with Joe Bernal's men's swim team and the numbers of dissatisfied swimmers, were common knowledge...