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...sure, there are those who feel that soccer violence is largely a symptom of deeper social and economic problems, perhaps even a direct result of Britain's 13.5% unemployment rate. In Liverpool, for example, 25% of the labor force is out of work. "We have football," says Psychologist Peter Marsh. "Other societies have street gangs." A 1980 study of soccer hooliganism in Britain found that four-fifths of those charged with soccer- related crimes were either unemployed or manual workers. Says Sociologist John Williams of the University of Leicester: "We must go into the community to find out why young...
...image of journalists as a hard-drinking tribe is almost wearisomely familiar. It has been reinforced in books and movies by characters from Jake Barnes, the hard-boiled news correspondent of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, to Lew Marsh, the boozing reporter that James Cagney plays in the 1951 film Come Fill the Cup. Even TV's Lou Grant & Co. regularly restored their spirits with spirits at the local hangout...
...Chilean military aircraft take them on to Lieut. Marsh Base in Antarctica for a spot of penguin watching. Looking for something really different? For $751 you can fly from Paris to Tamanrasset, an Algerian town at the edge of the Sahara. From there you travel by Land Rover on a two-week trek into the desert. You can ride a camel too, but beware of scorpions...
...those years," says Stewart. "By the time I finally departed, in January 1970, I was so consumed that I was unable to leave my Manila hotel room for several days." He returned to Saigon as a TIME correspondent in 1972-73 and again in 1975. Johannesburg Bureau Chief Marsh Clark recalls the special problems of covering the war from 1968 to '70, when U.S. involvement was at its peak. "We tried to report on the myriad social difficulties the war was creating, especially the huge migration of people into the cities," he says. "Just covering the battles did not actually...
...image has made Madonna rock's first girlie pinup since Deborah Harry. An enterprising journalist for the English rock-fashion magazine The Face inquired if "she found it difficult deciding to lose her virginity." "Oh no," Madonna shot right back. "I thought of it as a career move." Says Marsh: "She presents herself as very tough and sluttish, which people seem able to accept very easily from Mick Jagger, but not from her. And look at Linda Ronstadt. She was at least as 'sluttish' as Madonna. Madonna never had her picture taken in a pigsty with shorts...