Word: marcuses
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...budgeted just $10 million for disaster detection and preparation this year, while private charities are being whipsawed by conflicting demands. Says Marcus Thompson, Oxfam's emergencies director: "We are going flat out everywhere." What about a multinational force independent of the U.N.? The belated but effective intervention in Bangladesh by 12,000 U.S. soldiers suggests that a military-style operation might be the answer. In the Washington Post, columnist Jim Hoagland called on the U.S. to use its armed forces for other emergencies in the future. Yet developing countries often balk at U.S. intervention. On the other hand, a reserve...
...despite the uncertainty of their futures--or their next meals, for that matter--Marcus, 27, a Cambridge-based artist and writer, said the hippie way of life is still better than the alternatives--at least...
...selected were Deborah Amos, 40, London-based correspondent for National Public Radio; Marcus W. Brauchli, 29, Tokyo correspondent for The Wall Street Journal; George deLama, 34, Washington-based chief diplomatic correspondent for the Chicago Tribune; and Seth Effrom, 38, state capital correspondent for the Greensboro News & Record...
...whose officials have implied that Hubbard's successors may be looting the church's coffers. Since 1988, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the revocation of the cult's tax-exempt status, a massive IRS probe of church centers across the country has been under way. An IRS agent, Marcus Owens, has estimated that thousands of IRS employees have been involved. Another agent, in an internal IRS memorandum, spoke hopefully of the "ultimate disintegration" of the church. A small but helpful beacon shone last June when a federal appeals court ruled that two cassette tapes featuring conversations between church officials...
...action was a stinging defeat for the African National Congress, which had lobbied hard to keep sanctions intact. Said Congress spokesperson Gill Marcus: "We still have a long way to go before apartheid is scrapped." Government-sponsored laws tearing down most racial restrictions, however, are expected to be approved by Parliament this June, and their passage will probably spur the U.S. to reconsider its own sanctions against South Africa...