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...power to shock? Indeed it does, and Nelson DeMille, who served as a lieutenant in Viet Nam, knows exactly how to employ his surge within us"), but the military scenes have the gunmetal ring of authenticity. This is The Caine Mutiny of the '80s, a long, over-the-shoulder look at a time that grows larger as it recedes from sight...
...little social pressure to persuade them to postpone childbearing, notes Joy Dryfoos, who has conducted research for the Rockefeller Foundation. Middle-class girls tend not to have babies, she says, "because Mother would kill them if they did." For the lower socioeconomic groups, she says, "it's the big shoulder shrug. They don't get abortions. They don't use contraception. It's just not that important; they don't have a sense of the future...
...terrorists in Rome carried no identity papers. But police determined that one of the slain gunmen was only 15 years old. The lone survivor, shot in the arm and shoulder, was too seriously wounded to be thoroughly questioned. He gave his name as Mohammed Sharam, 19, claimed to have been born in Lebanon's Shatila camp, and declared, "I am a Palestine fighter." Blood tests showed that he had taken amphetamines, and police believed that some of the attackers had been high on the drug. Investigators traced a currency-exchange receipt from a Rome bank in the possession...
Young black militants, some bearing the green, gold and black colors of the outlawed African National Congress, stood shoulder to shoulder with conservatively dressed white matrons inside St. John's Methodist Church in a comfort able all-white neighborhood of Port Elizabeth. Together they sang freedom songs and prayed for a more peaceful future. For black and white South Africans, it was an unusual display of racial harmony. The occasion: the funeral of Molly Blackburn, a leading white antiapartheid activist who was killed in an automobile crash...
...prime is now at an eight-year low of 9%. Underwriting losses ballooned. Foreign reinsurers--Lloyd's of London is the biggest--that indemnify most American casualty companies against extraordinary losses, cut back sharply or ran away from the business entirely, leaving the American firms to shoulder the losses alone. Finally, in 1984 underwriting losses swallowed up investment income entirely and, according to industry statistics, property-casualty insurers suffered an overall pretax loss of $3.8 billion. It was the first red-ink figure in nine years. In 1985 the pretax loss increased to $5.5 billion. Some 40 liability insurers have...