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...times as likely to be used against blacks as whites. In February about 10,000 demonstrators, including many from Brixton, marched peacefully in nearby Deptford to protest what they considered deliberately lethargic police investigation of the deaths of two young blacks in a fire. The latest spark appears to have been struck the evening before the rioting, when blacks accused police of failing to respond quickly enough after a black Brixton man was stabbed to death...
...Corporation must not heed Citibank's cries that the $250-million loan it made to the government last fall--which led to Harvard's sale of $50-million-worth of Citibank notes and securities--went to "humanitarian" causes and should spark a reexamination of Harvard's policy. We continue to advocate total divestiture of all investments in banks lending money to the South African government or companies operating with or in South Africa...
...some of the circumstances are already known. Apparently, safety supervisors erred in clearing the technicians to go into the craft. Before a launch rehearsal, it is standard procedure to use nonflammable nitrogen to flush oxygen-laden air out of the engine compartment, where even the slightest friction or electrical spark can touch off a deadly fire. Afterward, the technicians, all of whom had considerable experience working with the shuttle, went into the nitrogen-saturated compartment without their air packs, the portable breathing systems used in hazardous atmospheres. Since nitrogen can neither be seen nor smelled, the five technicians were overcome...
...small spark in Poland's eight-month confrontation between the government and the reform-minded unionists of Solidarity could touch off a conflagration. Last week in Bydgoszcz (pop. 300,000), 140 miles northwest of Warsaw, the flash was almost struck. For three days, farmers demanding their own union, Rural Solidarity, had occupied a government building. Somehow, the tensions of the peasant sit-in swirled across town to another meeting at the Bydgoszcz provincial council building, where local Solidarity members and Rural Solidarity activists sought to discuss the situation with the Provisional People's Council...
...honest show, one presented simply without the trappings of make-up, costumes, or set, opting to stand or fall on the strength of its portrayals. Though it fights the good fight, it comes up a bit short--but perhaps A Time of Fire will spark equally ambitious attempts to escape the playhouses of Broadway for the streets of the real world...