Word: things
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech on the day of the Tower commission report, Reagan said he "didn't ask enough about the specifics of the total Iran plan." In the introduction to the speech in his book, Reagan has a new explanation for the Iran-contra affair. He wonders whether the whole thing was "a setup, a sting operation, by the Iranians." Over to you, Ollie...
...blunting mental trauma is counseling. Survivors need to be assured that their reactions are normal and expected. Talking to family and friends is encouraged, but often it is not enough. Says Susan Solomon, coordinator of the National Institute of Mental Health's emergency and disaster research program: "The thing that makes disasters particularly damaging is that the people you normally turn to for help are also victims." Many Alaskans affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill last March are finding professional help useful. In the three months after the accident, the number of people seeking assistance at the Valdez Counseling...
...professional house mover who has completed 30 jobs for Sister Grace, still has a few final forms to sign and fees to pay. "The biggest difficulty is the paperwork," he says, pointing to a glove compartment crammed full of documents. "I got so much paperwork on this thing that if anyone stops me, it will take me 15 minutes just to find...
President of the East German Union of Writers. A well-known Establishment author, he has called the refugee exodus a "defeat." He cautions against "pomp and ceremony and all this miserable smugness," and contends that the worst thing about East Germany is "the condition it is in today...
...height of 6 in. As survivors yelled for help, citizens long divided by race and class forgot their differences in a rush to assist them. William McElroy, an unemployed boilermaker who had just reached his home from the freeway, returned to the disaster. "We couldn't do a damn thing at first because we didn't have any equipment. We broke into a factory yard and got ladders. Then two kids came with forklifts from another factory. We put pallets on them, lifted them up like stretchers and brought people down." Heedless of aftershocks that continued to rumble, ghetto youths...