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...party's not over at Stanford University, but it may be safer, thanks to the efforts of the Interfraternity Council (IFC) to address the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse...

Author: By A. LOUISE Oliver, | Title: Stanford Frats Revise Drinking Policy | 2/20/1988 | See Source »

...have to convince the people that it would be a safer society by diminishing the number of handguns out there," said George Bachrach, a former Massachusetts state senator...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: Experts Debate Gun Control | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

...night on the Central Square Action Plan after hearing testimony from its authors. Compiled by a team of city officials and neighborhood representatives, the project is meant to make the square more attractive to shoppers by controlling the types of businesses that settle there, making the streets cleaner and safer, and creating more mixed-income housing...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Council Debates Plan to Revamp Central Sq. | 2/3/1988 | See Source »

...have long hindered relief efforts by looting emergency provisions and destroying what they cannot carry away, are now even cutting off food deliveries. On Christmas the International Red Cross halted airlifts from Maputo to rural villages after Renamo threatened to shoot down the planes. Land routes are hardly safer. More than 400 people were killed in ambushes on the main road from Maputo to the north in the past three months alone. Traveling in convoys guarded by ill-equipped Frelimo troops, relief vehicles are easy prey. Fifteen CARE drivers and assistants have lost their lives since 1984. Driver Vincent Joao...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mozambique Agony on the African Coast | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...controversial Minister of Industry and Trade Ariel Sharon chose last week to move into a new home: an apartment in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Sharon, who still owns a farm in the Negev, decided to live in the Muslim quarter to make it safer for Jews who would be encouraged to follow him. Arabs responded with new protests and a strike by shopkeepers in East Jerusalem. When Sharon threw a Hanukkah party for 300 guests, hundreds of police had to be called out to provide security, and Israeli officials fretted that providing permanent security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Days of Rage in the Territories | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

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