Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meteorologists suspect that droughts in India, Mexico, southern Africa and the Philippines are attributable to El Niño, the Pacific current that may also account for this spring's record rains in California. But El Niño does not explain the aridity of northeastern Brazil, where rainfall this year is running at one-eighth its normal rate. In most afflicted areas, paralyzing dryness is, alas, endemic. Explains Roman Kintanar, president of the World Meteorological Society: "What we have right now is just one of the vagaries of weather...
...other words, you're damned if you do and demand if you don't--"deviant" behavior is unacceptable, but leaving the village would be an even more heinous crime. And while Bertrande and her husband are physically threatened by those who suspect Martin is an impostor, it never occurs to the couple to begin again in another town. But that is only a solution in today's mobile, even rootless, society: in 16th-century France, even train travels would have been far too swift...
...Haitian connection is still puzzling. The disease apparently broke out on the impoverished Caribbean isle in 1981, at about the same time as it did in the U.S. Some experts suspect that AIDS is caused by a newly introduced viral agent from Africa, where Kaposi's is common, and may have been transmitted by Haitians who once worked in Zaïre. Port-au-Prince has many popular gay bars, and the disease could have been brought back to the U.S. by visiting Americans?or taken to Haiti by Americans in the first place. Recent investigations suggest that the disease...
...tapes save days in pretrial hearings by permitting judges to determine quickly if a confession is voluntary and can be used as evidence. They leave no doubts that the suspect was read his Miranda rights to remain silent and have an attorney, and that he waived them. The tapes also provide clear, tamperproof visual records for all trial participants. Another unanticipated benefit: defendants seem willing to confess when looking at the little red light. Brighton, for instance, pleaded guilty after making his statement on the tube and was sentenced to six to 18 years in prison. From the time...
Some attorneys, however, are skeptical about the benefits. Says Lawyer Howard Specter of Pittsburgh: "A suspect may be overwhelmed by the videotape equipment. The potential for taking advantage seems strong." Defense Attorney William Murphy of Chicago says, "Let's face it. Some confessions are elicited not by beating but by trickery...