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Some contend that the most effective way to control terrorism is to cure the social conditions that inspire today's nihilism-such as unemployment (especially among the young) and a distant, insensitive bureaucratic government. Italian Sociologist Giovanni Statera argues that the alternative of "trying to shore up state institutions by passing repressive antiterrorist laws is like trying to cure a cancerous tumor with hot-water packs." Still, it remains to be seen whether efforts to eradicate economic injustice in a democratic manner would solve the present problem; it is not, after all, the have-nots who are taking...
...offices of Vice President Walter Mondale and Presidential Aide Stuart Eizenstat, who was still writing the President's speech. Said one White House aide who watched Blumenthal: "He was climbing the walls." Blumenthal was trying desperately to alter the decision and then, realizing it was irreversible, attempting to shore up his own position by making additions to Eizenstat's drafts. He finally persuaded Eizenstat to insert a new paragraph in the President's speech declaring that Strauss would become a member of the steering committee of the Economic Policy Group, of which Blumenthal is chairman. The reference...
...many ways, they are a normal group of kids. They have probably seen more of Boston than most Harvard students; the majority attend local public schools; they love McDonald's ice skating, or climbing rocks on the North Shore...
...work gangs attempted to scoop up the sticky scum on beaches and in inlets, dismayed marine biologists and fishermen were already giving a fairly bleak assessment of the long-term damage. Because the Amoco Cadiz's oil is lighter and was released closer to the French shore than that from the Torrey Canyon, which blackened the English coast a decade ago, it had spread faster and penetrated deeper into Brittany's many inlets and estuaries. Even farther out to sea many food fish, except possibly sole, which stay near the bottom, will be contaminated. The season...
...death play-off at the Kathryn Crosby-Honda Civic Classic in San Diego. Long off the tee, extraordinarily accurate around the green and a superb putter, Lopez is the young season's leading money winner-$47,317-and is the favorite in this weekend's Colgate-Dinah Shore Winners Circle tournament, the L.P.G.A.'s richest ($240,000) event...