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...peace workers." Says Federal District Judge Marvin Shoob, who last year ruled in favor of an A.C.L.U. challenge to religious meetings that were being held in a suburban Atlanta junior high school: "The bill will create more problems than it solves. I expect to see a rash of lawsuits...
...example, have not kept up, forcing career soldiers to leave for civilian life. The real (i.e., inflationadjusted) salaries of civil servants have dropped by 14% in the past seven months, causing strikes or slowdowns that have hampered services ranging from mail deliveries to issuing passports. The government averted another rash of strikes by agreeing on a two-year contract with public workers last week. Nonetheless, some unions rejected the proposed 15% wage hike and may still walk out before election...
Although President Belisario Betancur Cuartas has expressed confidence that the other armed movements will sign similar agreements, a recent rash of bombings, bank robberies and kidnapings suggests the contrary. These acts of violence are believed to be the work of other guerrilla groups that oppose the ceasefire. But F.A.R.C.'s second-in-command, Jacobo Arenas, remained firm. Said he: "We are going to give the President a little more strength by keeping our part of the peace bargain...
Until quite recently, researchers had felt no particular urgency for immunization. The disease had long been regarded as a benign malady, and although it tends to hit adults more severely than children, most people seemed to suffer through the rash, high fever, sore throat and painful joints without ill effect. But increasingly, doctors have realized that varicella contains a variety of hidden threats. Among them: bacterial infections of the skin, pneumonia, encephalitis and the severe brain disorder known as Reye's syndrome. It can also be life-threatening to children taking immune-suppressing anticancer drugs. According to Government estimates...
Still scarred by the rash of kidnapings in the late 1970s, many of the wealthy employ bodyguards, who may turn into killers. Policemen, who earn about $70 a month, can be hired to perform a beating for $ 10 or a murder for $20. Settling a dispute by legal means is practically unheard of. Says Historian Thomas P. Anderson, author of several books on Central America: "Where we in the U.S. would go to court to settle a claim, down there they just shoot them...