Word: roam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Roberto d'Aubuisson, won the upper hand in the Assembly and, in postelection bargaining, tried hard to sabotage U.S.-inspired reforms. The improvement in the observance of human rights in El Salvador is halting at best. Right-wing death squads and trigger-happy armed forces units still roam the country, adding an average of 100 victims a week to the estimated 35,000 Salvadorans who have died in the three-year conflict...
Some of Zurich's legendary financial gnomes apparently like to roam before they go home. At day's end they head for the nightclub and red-light district of Niederdorf-Bellevue, where the figures are more comely than those they have been wrestling with at the office. While prostitution is not illegal in Zurich, strictures on streetwalking are tight. It is banned in residential areas and near schools, hospitals and churches. In Niederdorf-Bellevue, the city's 700 registered prostitutes are free to solicit on the street only from...
...scheduled to be electrocuted this spring, are alone in their cells for at least 21 hours a day. When they are in transit, once a day to the law library and once a day to the recreation room, they are handcuffed. Four of them are "honor residents," permitted to roam unchained in the gray hallways. One of these is John Wayne Gacy, 39, the building contractor and amateur clown convicted three years ago of murdering 33 young men and boys...
That prospect, however, leaves some experts uneasy. Opening up the region to commerce is sure to undermine the cattle-herding societies of the estimated 1 million Dinka and Nuer tribesmen who roam the Sudd. "But most of the traditional people want to change," contends Jonathan Jenness of the United Nations Development Program. "They don't want to be hungry, sick and uneducated and, most important, without political clout...
...families. But her gentleness turns to steel when she browbeats bureaucrats or bankers to help the garbage pickers. She envisions motorized vehicles to replace the dilapidated donkey carts. She wants to replace pickers' filthy garments with clean uniforms and to pen the pigs instead of allowing them to roam in and out of homes. Says she: "It will cost money, but it won't be expensive. I want to prove it's possible to be a clean and dignified garbage collector, and slowly, slowly, we will do it. With God, everything is possible...