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...petition describes the current precautions, "which consist of one student who sits near the entry from 6 p.m. until midnight" as inadequate, citing a rash of burglaries, assaults and attempted crimes in Claverly...
...free nation, even where the problem of political dissidence is serious, are handguns as readily obtainable as in the U.S.-one explanation for the relatively lax security arrangements of many nations. Regulations of ownership and licensing tend to be strict. In four of the largest democratic nations, defenses against rash acts of violence vary...
This year's rash of teacher strikes differs from those of previous years in quality as well as quantity. Through the late 1960s and early 1970s, when municipal unions of all kinds began to discover and use their considerable bargaining muscle, the teachers' unions had three goals: more pay, more benefits, more control over the operation of the schools. This year, with municipal budgets gutted by inflation and falling tax revenues, some teachers are still reaching for more but many are struggling just to hang on to what they have...
...weather was also blamed for a rash of forest fires, particularly in Germany and Italy. In Lower Saxony, 7,400 West German soldiers were called out to assist 6,000 civilian firefighters battling two fires that destroyed 20,000 acres of forest land and threatened ten villages. Zookeepers also had their hands full. Penguins in the Cologne zoo had to be put in air-conditioned boxes. A lion in a safari park near Frankfurt lumbered out of his lair and took a dip in the park's fountain, and a frazzled baby leopard at the West Berlin zoo sprang...
...severely restricted by ideological differences. On one side stood those committed to democratic processes, such as the Socialists; on the other side were those, like the Communists, who were willing to employ authoritarian means to carry out the revolution. While the Cabinet became bogged down in lengthy discussions, a rash of strikes and demonstrations seemed to be bringing the country close to anarchy...