Word: safes
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...administration, he said, the abhorrent conditions in Peru's prisons meant nothing less than the death penalty. While President Fujimori has said he would not free the 300 Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement rebels imprisoned in Peru under any circumstances, he allowed this week that he would consider granting safe passage out of the country to the rebels if they release the captives and lay down their weapons. With Tuesday's renewed demands, there seems to be no easy end in sight...
...more effective alternative is prevention, through public education and safe-sex programs. Such efforts have made some progress in recent years. In Uganda, which in the mid-1980s was the first African country to launch a genuine anti-AIDS campaign, billboards and government warnings appear to be paying off: HIV infections among young women dropped 35% between the periods 1990-1993 and 1994-1995. Elsewhere in Africa, however, and in some parts of Asia, similar programs have stalled, due to a combination of poverty, official indifference and, at times, paranoia. As a result, public understanding of even the most basic...
Three hours after the seizure, communications were established and the insurgents gradually began releasing some 300 women and elderly people (including Fujimori's mother and sister). In phone calls to local television and radio stations, the rebels then issued a list of demands. Among them: safe passage to a haven in the Amazon jungle and release of about 450 comrades being held in various jails, where conditions are so harsh that prisoners are said to be trapping rats to feed themselves...
...money was good, workers got jobs, there was peace in our time. Problems too big for government to handle were acknowledged as such or reduced to manageable size in local pockets. Bill Clinton discovered America, and America discovered in Clinton a repository for a political centrism unimaginative yet safe...
...wrongful-death civil suit brought by the Browns and the family of Ron Goldman against Simpson. Said Laurie Levenson, associate dean at Loyola Law School: "It's going to be hard for the jurors to believe that he is dangerous. They will believe that the kids are safe if a judge sent them home to live with...