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The warning signs had been visible for months. In September the government of State President P.W. Botha expelled a U.S. correspondent for allegedly reporting "half truths." Only weeks later an American television camera crew was arrested and charged with disobeying a police order to leave a protest rally. In October...
Then, in a surprise move, New Zealand Solicitor-General Paul Neazor declared that the prosecution had agreed to reduce the charges against the French agents to manslaughter since the defendants had acted only "in support of those who actually placed the explosives." Prieur and Mafart then coolly pronounced their guilty...
Recent laws requiring harsher health warnings on cigarette packages, a popular preoccupation with physical fitness and restrictions on smoking in many restaurants and offices do not make business easy for industry executives. It comes as no surprise, then, that tobacco makers are aggressively diversifying. Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, which...
The results came as a surprise to doctors involved in the study. "We started off because we were encouraged by the operation," says Dr. Henry Barnett, professor of neurology at the University of Western Ontario in Canada and chief coordinator of the project. "Disappointing is the one single word that...
It's little surprise that cowboys write poetry. Knox has spent hours in the saddle watching the south end of a herd moving north, with plenty of time to roll phrases around on his tongue. He is observant, a necessity for the writing of verse or the tracking of cows...