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Another manpower problem arose during the early '80s, when community pressures for walking patrols forced the reinstitution of the traditional "cop on the beat." "Pretty soon every neighbor-hood wanted its own walking cop." Johnson says. "We just didn't have enough manpower." The problems extended from inadequate manpower through a shortage of patrol cars...
Code's own Cinderella story seems positive enough for anyone. A native of Carleton Place, Ontario, a "bedroom community" outside Ottawa, Code actually applied to Harvard on a dare. "The need-door neighbor said that I'd never apply to someplace like Harvard, and dared me to do it," the 5-ft., 7-in. Code remembers. "When I got in, I expected to play j.v. or maybe intramural...
...they watch the rising agitation around them, the Israelis are conspicuously uneasy. They fear Syria's desire to dominate Lebanon. They are concerned about Egypt, the only Arab neighbor with whom they are formally at peace, as it repairs its ties with the Islamic world. They are also suspicious of Hussein's and Arafat's attempts to start a dialogue on the future of Palestinians on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. They believe that such a dialogue, if successful, would bring renewed U.S. pressure on Israel to enter negotiations on the occupied territories...
Seeing the Pope clasp in forgiveness the hand that once tried to kill him makes it easier for us to take the hand of a business rival, a too-loud neighbor, an ex-friend or an estranged spouse...
Mozambique still receives most of its consumer goods and industrial supplies from its hated neighbor to the south. Though the number of Mozambicans working in South Africa's mines has fallen by 65% since 1975, some 50,000 are still laboring there, bringing in $70 million every year...