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...WITH HALF THE MOVIE to go, she finds herself torn between her love--punctuated with every token of affection peculiar to the PG genre--and her amorphous fear of having a relationship with a rock star. With his lime waiting for their second date, she flips. "Doesn't it bother you drawing attention to yourself like this...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Hard to Handle | 4/17/1984 | See Source »

...Harvard Square church group may soon provide a home for Central Americans seeking refuge in the United States from their war-torn native lands...

Author: By Lawrence J. Davis, | Title: Square Group Offers Refugees a Home | 4/17/1984 | See Source »

...operation might have been torn from the pages of the Little Drummer Girl, John le Carré's Middle Eastern thriller. Three young Palestinian terrorists slip across the Lebanese border into Israel, where a man with a Lebanese passport and a woman with one from the U.S. supply them with weapons. Then, on a sunny morning last week, the three drive a rented red Autobianchi up crowded King George V Street in West Jerusalem. Two of them enter a sporting-goods store and, in Arab-accented English, nervously ask to try on some jeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Returning Fire | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...routinely practice torture, according to the study. These include some of the largest industrial notions: China, the Soviet Union, Brazil and India, to name but a few. Every continent save North America experiences torture: even our strongest ally, Britain, is knows to have used extensive police brutality in war-torn Northern Ireland...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Battling Brutal Regimes | 4/14/1984 | See Source »

...like going through a rape again.'' Many attorneys and social activists claim that the intense national focus on the New Bedford trial has discouraged women from pursuing rape charges. Says Philadelphia Judge Lisa Richette: "This woman is being subjected to vivisection. She is just being torn apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: When News Becomes Voyeurism | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

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