Word: storme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been 14 years since marine archaeologists rediscovered the U.S.S. Monitor, the Civil War ironclad that sank in a storm near Cape Hatteras, N.C., ten months after the historic 1862 standoff with its Confederate counterpart, the C.S.S. Virginia.* Since then more than 100 artifacts have been recovered from the wreck, including wine bottles and a 1,300-lb. anchor. Despite the Monitor's designation in March as the country's first undersea National Historic Landmark, scientists and Government officials have been unable to decide whether the ship itself can be salvaged. Last week, after a 14-day expedition...
...storm after the calm. As increasing numbers of heterosexuals contracted the AIDS virus, the nation began to perceive the disease as a threat not restricted to the gay community. Public health officials began distributing condoms and safe sex guidelines and college campuses developed additional ways to deal with the health crisis...
...Harvard has thus far escaped the storm. "I have not received a single telephone call from a student or parent asking about our AIDSpolicy," says Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III."The community is a very sophisticated one and isdetermined that the rights of gay students andorganizations be protected...
...takeover, though, fueled rather than cooled ethnic tension. Early last week business in Suva was at a standstill after fearful Indian shopkeepers boarded up their stores with storm shutters and retreated to their homes. Army units patrolled the streets, keeping watch on loitering gangs of Fijian youths. Eventually, some 500 native Fijians gathered in the center of Suva and began to run riot. They swarmed through the city, wrecking the stalls of Indian traders. One group hauled Indian taxi drivers from their vehicles, beating them and breaking car windows. The mob then charged 1,000 Indians in a city park...
...activist Los Angeles attorney, is that "judges, who want to allow the defense as much of a chance as possible, sometimes err on the side of the defendant by allowing the victim to be vigorously cross-examined." When they do, the only palliative seems to be public protest. The storm over Hanson's treatment last week led to a formal apology from the judge a few days later. With Atlas at her side, Hanson told reporters, "In the end justice worked and justice was done." It is nice she can forgive. Forgetting may be harder...