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Their snow removal budget depleted by two months of unusually harsh weather, city public works officials had to seek supplementary funding to keep the streets safe during last week's storms...
While the privations of banning are harsh, they are not as unpleasant in most cases as the more common punishment of indefinite detention without trial. In 1960 the government began to practice detention in addition to banning, which was ten years old. The two repressive measures have become part of the grim pattern of national life. Over the years, banning and detention have been used to silence more than 1,500 critics of the regime, including 350 people seized during the Soweto riots in 1976 and scores of journalists, clergymen and antiapartheid leaders following the death in custody of Stephen...
While in the embassy, the group completed a 225,000-word account of their heart-rending saga, reworked by John Pollock as The Siberian Seven (Word; $8.95). During a harsh anti-Christian campaign, starting in 1961, worship services were routinely broken up and many Pentecostal leaders were jailed. When their children faced cruel harassment at school-ridicule, ostracism and beatings-the Vashchenkos decided to educate them at home. The state then ruled them unfit parents, seized Lidiya and two sisters in 1962, and sent them to be raised in institutions until they turned...
...been a harsh season for many metropolitan newspapers. Chicago's Tribune Co. has put a FOR SALE sign on the New York Daily News, the largest general circulation paper in the country. In Philadelphia the old slogan "Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin "has been turned on its head. Now more people read the morning Inquirer, and the Bulletin is on the block. If buyers do not turn up soon, both the News and Bulletin may fold. Once prosperous dailies in Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Los Angeles and Seattle are also tottering...
...passengers, dutifully listening to the stewardess telling him to fasten his seat belt and saying something about the "no smoking sign." So our man relaxed with the others, some of whom would owe their lives to him. Perhaps he started to read, or to doze, or to regret some harsh remark made in the office that morning. Then suddenly he knew that the trip would not be ordinary. Like every other person on that flight, he was desperate to live, which makes his final act so stunning...