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...additions, subtractions or alterations to official uniforms usually invite disciplinary action, except, apparently, in wartime. Late last month, the New York City police department overruled itself and decided that flag patches larger than a lapel pin but no bigger than 1.5 in. by 2 in. would not violate its strict standards. A Worcester, Mass., court officer fought for and won the right to wear a yellow ribbon below the breast badge on his uniform, unless a particular judge decides it might disrupt his courtroom. When a gate attendant at Miami's Opa-Locka Airport was told to remove her yellow...
...major farming areas in the fecund San Joaquin Valley, suspended all agricultural deliveries of the water it controls. Meanwhile the Federal Government warned of up to 75% cutbacks in the low-priced water from its reservoirs over the next few weeks. City governments convened emergency sessions to consider strict rationing for business and residential users. In the first unforeseen crisis of his new administration, Governor Pete Wilson stopped just short of declaring a state of emergency, instead creating a "drought action team" to draft a water plan in two weeks. "Concern is justified. Panic is not," cautioned Wilson. "This...
...believers take seriously the jihad call issued last August by Saddam. For their part, Saudi Arabia's strict Islamic rulers obtained a fatwa (ruling) last month from their ranking religious figure, who declared that self-defense justified holy war against Saddam...
...Jane Austen's estate, even at this minute [laughter]. There really is no strict definition of what is going too far with parody. Parody is generally okay, but characters are trade marked, they're not copyrighted. And we actually had Bambi with bullets around her neck and we took the skunk and made it into a cigar-chomping sergeant, and that's stuff we probably couldn't have done. It would have been interesting to test the case, but not with our own money...
...West Bank acknowledges that "when my children hear the siren, their whole bodies start shaking." Says Ziad Ahmed, who with his six children lives in a refugee camp near Bethlehem: "My children have picked up my fear, and there's no way now to calm them down." Because of strict U.N. curfews, Palestinian youngsters in the occupied territories are cooped up at home most of the day. Another source of outrage and anxiety: a shortage of gas masks. Israeli authorities initially refused to issue the masks to Palestinians to ensure that they would have no protection against tear gas used...