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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recommend that drug use be limited to ten times a month to avoid scarring. Occasionally a patient will suffer a prolonged erection; impotence clinics provide 24-hour emergency service to administer an antidote. Cost of the therapy: $1,200 to $2,400 a year. Robert Batts, 40, a former policeman in Hull, Mass., who became impotent nine years ago after fracturing his back while breaking up a fight, is enthusiastic about the injections. So is his wife Donna, who sometimes signals her mood with the question, "Have you had your shot today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: It's Not All in Your Head | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...Botha government's slow reforms face a far more menacing threat from the ultra-right. Last week, in a mad act of violence, Barend Strydom, 23, an Afrikaner ex-policeman, gunned down blacks on a street in downtown Pretoria, smiling as he killed six and injured 17. Strydom belonged to the neofascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement (A.W.B.), whose members openly whip up racial feelings. Public shock led the government to ban a still more radical group, the tiny so-called B.B.B., or White Liberation Movement, as a clear warning to the A.W.B. and other avowed right-wing groups that the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Gunning For Apartheid | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...basis for the policeman's action was content-based, rather than form-based, then it appears that the incident is clearly a First Amendment issue involving free political expression...We urge General Counsel to look into this University rule and the policeman's conduct," Segall said...

Author: By Robert J. Weiner, | Title: Liberties Group Requests Inquiry of Stadium Sign Ban | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

Beginning today, The Crimson will use gender-neutral language on its news and editorial pages. For example, "chairperson" replaces "chairman," and "police officer" replaces "policeman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Our Readers: | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...many differences abound, suggesting that even here the border is much more than just cartographical whimsy. Two American youths from El Paso were arrested and accused of killing a Mexican policeman and wounding another during a night out in Ciudad Juarez. On the U.S. side, outrage erupted over perceived weaknesses in the Mexican judicial system, with newspapers carrying stories of Mexican police corruption and the shakedowns that supposedly occur so frequently south of the border. But Mexican newspapers highlighted the fact that the slain policeman was the father of three and accused youthful American visitors of an arrogant belief that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journey Along the U.S.-Mexico Border | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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