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...Gulf with a Patriot missile battery, Army Specialist Anthony Riggs, 22, won a two-week furlough. Back home less than 24 hours, Riggs was helping his wife load a car and rented van to move out of a crack-infested neighborhood in northeast Detroit to an apartment in the safer suburbs. Someone took a fancy to Riggs' 1989 Nissan Sentra, pumped five shots into the soldier and sped...
...crime rate is still unproven. The most thorough study of its effectiveness, a 1981 examination of an experimental foot-patrol program in Newark, found that it did not decrease crime. It did pay off, however, in psychological well-being. The visible presence of so many patrolmen made people feel safer and better disposed toward the police...
...least some of the eight plaintiffs in the case, the victory was bittersweet. In 1984 Gloyce Qualls, 41, was involuntarily transferred from a high-risk area at Johnson Controls, where she welded posts onto batteries, to a safer workplace, where she cleaned and installed vents in motorcycle batteries. The move halved her salary. To get back to the higher-paying post, Qualls underwent tubal ligation. She subsequently married and now regrets that she can no longer bear children. "Nothing really would make up for it," she says. "But this decision will help other women...
...Security Committee has fulfilled its duties. Now, it is up to the administration to do its part to make the University safer. The true test of its concern will be the promptness with which it implements these changes...
...order, the American version as Bush describes it, may not be new at all. It could be a lumbering and discredited apparatus, a revival of what seemed like a triumphal world-saving machine in 1945, that is effective only in the nostalgia of aging Americans. The world is a safer place now than it was two or three weeks ago. But if Bush's new world order is premised on the model of the U.S. as global intervener, making the old righteous American noises, then the world has a right to be nervous...