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Israel's warm embrace and a remarkable lack of discrimination between blacks and whites help ease the trauma. Until the mid-1980s rabbinic authorities questioned the Ethiopians' Jewishness. But the debate has subsided, and their Jewish credentials are now widely accepted. At least 400 Ethiopians have attended universities and 25 are officers in the army. Says Sergeant Shalom Sebate, who immigrated in 1985: "No one questions my authority. We're all Jews." Although the massive influx of Soviet Jews has overwhelmed the nation's resources, unemployment among the Ethiopians is lower than the national average, largely because of their willingness...
...years after the first launch of the space shuttle was supposed to initiate an era of routine space flight, NASA still doesn't have its act together. As of this writing, technicians are counting down for a nine-day life-sciences mission, originally scheduled for the mid-1980s. During the most recent delay, engineers were horrified to discover, more or less by accident, that sensors in Columbia's fuel line were cracked. If one had broken loose, it could have been sucked into the spacecraft's powerful pumps, causing the ship to explode in a replay of the Challenger disaster...
...first large group of these children was born in the mid-1980s, when hundreds of thousands of women began to get hooked on the cheap, smokable form of cocaine known as crack. The youngsters have run up huge bills for medical treatment and other care. Now the oldest are reaching school age, and they are sure to put enormous strain on an educational system that is already overburdened and underachieving...
...York City has also shifted strategies. In the mid-1980s, under the administration of former Mayor Ed Koch, a single positive toxicology report was enough for authorities to take a newborn from its mother. But a series of cases of mistaken charges of child abuse helped lead to a change of policy under Mayor David Dinkins. In one notorious example, Brooklyn bank clerk Judith Adams lost custody of her child for nearly two months after the medication that doctors gave her during a caesarean section resulted in a false-positive drug test. "Instead of breast feeding my baby...
Tifft and Jones root the Binghams in Southern traditions, from the mythmaking of genteel poverty to the brute force of the Klan, and sidle up to intriguing questions about the morality of inheriting vast fortunes and the special duties of media owners. But the core story is the mid-1980s sale of all Bingham companies for $448 million by Barry Bingham Sr., then 79. His son and namesake unsurprisingly felt that an adult lifetime of corporate devotion entitled him to the lion's share of control. Two wayward sisters, whom Barry Jr. had disenfranchised, equally unsurprisingly felt entitled to more...