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...facts were not new, but the judgment stung all the same. Six months after Edwin Meese declared himself "completely vindicated" by a special prosecutor's decision not to indict him on charges of misconduct, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility last week issued a scathing report on the former Attorney General's ethics. Its key conclusion: if Meese were still in office, "disciplinary action" should be taken against him for "conduct which should not be tolerated of any government employee, especially not the Attorney General." Among Meese's misdeeds cited in the report: doing favors for chum...
...training. "We are eroding the army's resources, physically and intellectually," said Knesset member Sarid. So many normal training routines have been interrupted that, as a U.S. Pentagon official put it, "we fear a deterioration of I.D.F. military capability." American military attaches in close contact with the Israeli army report "moral confusion" at all levels of the I.D.F. "The operation in the occupied territories is dividing the young from the old, the regulars from the reservists, the officers from the politicians," said a U.S. expert...
Until recently, the drugs were considered mainly the bane of competitive sports and body building. But the alarming fact is that steroids, which are synthetic male hormones, are increasingly being abused by teenage boys for cosmetic reasons. A report last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that 6.6% of male high school seniors -- and perhaps as many as 500,000 adolescents nationwide -- have used steroids. Nearly a third of the students surveyed took the drugs to acquire that brawny look. Declares "Ian," a 5-ft. 6-in., 115-lb. 17-year-old from Boston...
Purdy set his station wagon afire with a gasoline-filled beer bottle. Then the man described in a 1987 police report as suffering from "mild mental retardation" walked toward the school yard. At least 300 pupils, mostly kindergartners through third-graders, were enjoying their lunchtime recess. Impassively, Purdy squeezed the trigger of his rifle, then reloaded, raking the yard with at least 106 bullets. As children screamed in pain and fear, Purdy placed a 9-mm pistol to his head and killed himself. When the four- minute assault was over, five children, ages 6 to 9, were dead. One teacher...
...generated controversy among students throughout the fall. MSA members charged that the faculty panel's potential impact was diluted by the inclusion of women faculty members in Verba's mandate. And the Women's Alliance announced it would try to insure that women were property considered in the forthcoming report...