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Severe penalties sometimes threaten the editor of the Mirror, a tabloid published every other week behind the rock walls and accordion-wire fences of the maximum-security Minnesota Correctional Facility at Stillwater. The punishment is likely to come not from the warden or the guards but from any of the approximately 1,200 convicted car thieves, drug dealers, armed robbers, kidnapers, rapists, child abusers and murderers who may take issue with his editorial policy...
...officials are lending quiet encouragement to peacemaking efforts, but deep political divisions and intransigence in El Salvador threaten to stop the latest push. The right-wing ARENA party rejected any delay in the election. And the rebels have hinted that if no talks are held soon, they will resume the war with greater intensity...
While most plans at Radcliffe are on hold until the new president arrives this July, Radcliffe officials say the college is facing fundraising challenges that could threaten the institution's ability to support future programs...
Increased development in towns near Cambridge's two main reservoirs could threaten Boston's sorely depleted water supply by forcing Cambridge to draw on back-up reservoirs it shares with Boston, state officials said yesterday...
North's strategy, it seems, is to threaten to disclose embarrassing secrets if the Government will not drop the trial. In the bitter words of Robin Ross, chief aide to Attorney General Thornburgh, "This great American hero is graymailing the Government. This is the guy who stood up in his Marine Corps uniform and all his medals, and now he is sticking it to the Government with an advantage ((knowledge of secrets)) he got through service to his country...