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...This attitude must change. Pakistan will be respected only when we respect our own people, and Pakistan will be tolerant only when we protect the nonviolent expression of all shades of opinion. "Enlightened moderation" cannot simply be dictated from above. It will have to take root below, and for that to happen, the government needs to cease renting out stolen civil liberties and restore them to their rightful owners?the people from whom they were taken without consent...
DIED. J. (for John) Willard Marriott, 84, chairman of the Marriott Corp., who parlayed a nine-stool Washington root-beer stand started in 1927 into a $4 billion worldwide lodging and food empire that includes 142 hotels, 1,500 restaurants and flight kitchens serving more than 150 airlines; in Wolfeboro...
...Director William Webster said in an interview with TIME. "It shows that those who want to betray have a substantial risk on their hands of being detected and prosecuted and given severe sentences." In his weekly radio address on Saturday, President Reagan declared, "We will not hesitate to root out and prosecute the spies of any nation...
These efforts are aimed at what may be the true root of the teenage pregnancy problem: not simply lack of sex education or access to birth control but a sense of worthlessness and despair. Recounts Watson of Crittenton Center: "The girls tell me, 'Before I was pregnant, I was nothing. Now I am somebody. I'm a mother.' " As long as adolescents look in the mirror and see nobody there, they are likely to seek identity by becoming--ready or not--somebody's mother. --By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Cathy Booth/New York, Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles and Elizabeth Taylor/Chicago
When such measures are not enough, tougher actions are often taken. Many companies use undercover agents and drug-sniffing dogs to root out narcotics on their premises. Says Larry Curran, vice president of First Security, a Boston firm: "We're doing 15 to 20 drug investigations per week for corporations right now. That is an increase of 100% from last year...