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...construct their own facilities, especially if done cooperatively. Albert M. Giordano, campaign director of the Massachusetts Nuclear Referendum Campaign, characterizes the campaign as one between "populists" and "elitists". Giordano insists that the public is competent to decide the siting of nuclear facilities and that the law would institute a safer and more democratic mechanism for doing so. Polls consistently show that a majority of votes support...
Compounding the crisis are the currency controls instituted by López Portillo, who unjustly blames much of his country's economic plight on sacadólares, wealthy Mexicans who have been sending their money out of the country to safer havens. The scattershot regulations restrict the amount of currency that anyone can take out of Mexico. Tourists, except those visiting just the border areas, must declare all the cash they bring in. Foreign-owned industries may have trouble sending profits home; most Mexican businesses are hard pressed to obtain foreign currency for paying off outside debts; and banks...
After swiftly taking what street pictures he could before Gemayel's trigger-happy supporters arrived, Photographer Frey ducked into an adjacent building to get more pictures from a higher and safer vantage point. Suddenly shots were fired in his direction. Says he: "That was the signal to get my film to some safe place...
...miracles should no longer be expected, whether miraculous reformation of inmates or miraculous control of crime. Prisons are for temporarily isolating society's worst marauders. It is as simple and as complicated as that. Still, as a nation's institutions, they may also be made safer and more decent, just as a nation's whole criminal justice system may be made more coherent. Imprisoning people less shamefully is a worthy enough goal. Lowered expectations need not signify a national moral bankruptcy. For the U.S. and its ideas about prison, a deep breath and a sigh may be the beginning...
...first glance, Baghdad could not seem safer. There are color photographs of President Saddam Hussein everywhere in the capital, his beaming countenance gazing reassuringly down on his countrymen. The state-controlled television news, now broadcast in color, projects the same kind of official optimism. True, there has been an unbroken series of military victories on the fighting front to lend credence to Saddam's leadership abilities. No one talks about what might happen if there were a reversal on the battlefield...