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Officials tick off familiar reasons for the crime epidemic, such as poverty (in Dade County-which includes Miami, Miami Beach and other communities-18% of the families live on annual incomes of less than $7,500) and a nonhomogeneous population (in Dade County 45% white, 38% Hispanic and 17% black). In addition, many blame the newly arrived Cubans and a shortage of police in the fast-growing region. Miami alone has 50 positions unfilled in its 650-member force...
...Yale researchers began investigating a highly unusual cluster of arthritis cases among families living in the rural area of Lyme, Conn. Later, doctors at the U.S. submarine base in nearby New London reported several patients with a distinctive skin lesion that in Europe had been associated with tick bites. The seemingly unrelated ailments became linked when the Yale research team found that about a quarter of Lyme arthritis victims had also had the skin lesions a few weeks before their painful joint swellings began. Subsequent investigations revealed that the skin lesions, arthritis and many other ailments, including encephalitis, meningitis, paralysis...
...spectre disturbs feminists more than the thought of a splintering women's movement as the months tick away to the June 1982 deadline for the ERA. At odds over tomorrow's election and split over permanent matters of tactics and communication, they fear that the Illinois failure has factionalized women's groups beyond repair at a time when everyone agrees that feminists must unite as never before. Perhaps Ramsay sums it up best. For the women's movement to successfully implement its hopes, she says, "Feminists--all feminists, men and women--are going to have to learn to work together...
...after flying in Europe for NATO, returns to his family in the States. He calls himself the Great Santini, convinced of his worthiness of the grandiose title in a friendly, arrogant sort of way. Keyed up by an unlimited confidence and a "can-do" attitude, what makes Meechum tick is the same patriotic puffery that inspired Lyndon Johnson. His 17-year-old son, his wife, his pubescent daughter and smallest son, find it difficult to receive back into the family a father who seems more monstrous than human to them...
...Nowhere else in the Communist world, with the exception of Yugoslavia, does a Western correspondent have such broad access to the people and institutions that make a society tick," he says. "And nowhere in the Communist world do people speak their minds more freely. That's what makes Poland unique in the Soviet bloc-it is so open and its people so vibrant. That's also what allowed the incredible feat of workers' facing down a Communist regime to take place here...