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Sheriff Fraker, along with others in the area, assumed that the family's dire economic circumstances had pushed Kirk over the edge. It seemed to be yet one more tragic testament to the desperation of so many of the country's debt- burdened family farmers. Said the Rev. Wilburn Steward at a funeral service for the slain family attended by more than 500: "In mankind, there's a breaking point. Something in Kirk had reached that point, and he just snapped...
...Patient Zero is publicly identified for the first time in a stunning new book on the AIDS epidemic, And the Band Played On (St. Martin's Press; 630 pages; $24.95). Zero, says Author Randy Shilts, was Gaetan Dugas, a handsome blond steward for Air Canada, who used to survey the men on offer in gay bars and announce with satisfaction, "I'm the prettiest one." Using airline passes, he traveled extensively and picked up men wherever he went. Dugas developed Kaposi's sarcoma, a form of skin cancer common to AIDS victims, in June 1980, before the epidemic had been...
...Although a strike is always likely, the community should be spared that terrible disrupture," said Andrea Ross, chief steward of the union of clerics and technicians...
Politically, South African leaders maintain that sanctions have, if anything, proved counterproductive to the aspirations of apartheid's foes. Says David Steward, head of the government's Bureau for Information: "If it is truly the U.S. aim to bring about change in South Africa -- supposing for one moment that the U.S. has any right to interfere in our affairs -- sanctions are the worst possible way of trying to achieve this end." That argument is, of course, self-serving. But the government strummed loudly on the sanctions issue during South Africa's parliamentary election campaign earlier this year. Voter resentment over...
...stories and projects each week. Their job: to gather documentation for virtually every fact that appears in the magazine and to provide reporting and background material for the writers. Through her staff of reporter-researchers, Satterwhite, who became the magazine's eighth research chief in 1984, is the ultimate steward of TIME's accuracy. She is outspokenly proud of her staff's contribution to the magazine. "There is no question," she says, "that research provides a richer lode for our writers to mine and enhance their stories. Fortunately, our reporter-researchers have a voracious appetite for news, are sticklers...