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Thus almost anywhere one might try to unravel the tangled events of 1983, the skein leads quickly to two figures: Reagan and Andropov. Fittingly so. As Chiefs of State of the prime nuclear powers, they symbolize some of the stark differences in U.S. and Soviet values and political systems that make the Washington-Moscow competition so intractable...
...policymakers is how best to stop El Salvador's escuadrones de la muerte-death squads. The victims are supposedly "subversives," but they include union leaders, liberal professors and centrist politicians. Bush was in El Salvador for just seven hours, but his warnings about "these right-wing fanatics" were stark and powerful. "Your cause is being undermined by the murderous violence of reactionary minorities," he said to an assembly of the country's politicians and military men, "[which] poisons the well of friendship between our countries. [Do not] make the mistake of thinking that there is any division...
...nothing much to do and no fixed address-hobos, drifters, tramps-used to seem almost romantic: accountable to none, their lives serendipitous and free. The truth, of course, has always been different. Rootlessness is usually endured, rarely chosen. "Knowing you don't have a place to live, the stark realization . . . it hurts," says Rose Harmon of Chicago, who has had no real home since 1978. But today in the U.S., instead of a few vagabonds here and there, legions of people are homeless, shuffling and stumbling over the national landscape. Indeed, late last month the Department of Health...
...reflexive viciousness of the drug trade came into stark relief last month with the case of Nathaniel Sweeper, a suspected drug-gang enforcer who was accused of shooting another man to death on a Harlem street corner. The chief witness against Sweeper was a drug addict named Bobby Edmonds. Police and prosecutors succeeded in keeping his identity secret until the trial began. At that point, the judge disclosed Edmonds' name and address to the defense. Within seven hours Edmonds was found dead, with two bullets in the back of his head...
...deal with companies in that area [Cambridge] such as Raytheon and [Charles Stark] Draper Laboratories," said Richard G. Doom, of Litton's strategic systems division...