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...tumult in Rome concerned the tangled case of Claudia Caputi, 18, victim of a brutal gang rape last August, who has become a feminist heroine. In Italy's male-dominated Mediterranean culture, rape has usually been regarded as a shameful family secret, infrequently reported and rarely prosecuted. In fact, Italian courts often absolved the rapist if the girl agreed to marry him. In recent years the number of reported rapes has been on the decline-partly, experts theorize, as a result of increased sexual freedom among young people. But Rome has recently been shocked by a rash of vicious...
...opening night she appeared, a stunning study in red, in the glass-enclosed VIP booth high above the floor on the north end. Cheering her as a surrogate for her absent husband, Reagan supporters broke into a foot-stamping ovation that lasted more than 15 minutes. During the tumult Betty arrived, in an aqua dress, and took her seat in the front row above the floor on the south end. But her arms-high greeting could not overwhelm the Reaganites' demonstration...
...that under his three-year tutelage, the Faculty is running extraordinarily smoothly, rationally and with what little dirty laundry there is carefully circumscribed and tagged 'for internal consumption only.' Rosovsky has, in a sense, accomplished what many considered a Herculean task: in the wake of the '60s tumult, during which the administration came to personify evil, he has, according to one dean, "restored the trust of the Faculty, reestablished the joint desire of the dean and the Faculty to get things done." His moderately conservative image and politics have been forgotten, or perhaps have become unimportant, along with most issues...
...seen such a tumult over timbering since the great conservationist Gifford Pinchot took on bureaucrats and lumber barons at the turn of the century. On one side are the U.S. Forest Service and the $57 billion-a-year wood-products industry. Opposing them is a coalition of environmental groups. At stake: how the nation's 183 million acres of federally owned forest should be managed-including how much timber should be taken out of them...
...least stable crime rates. Rising crime during a period of rising prosperity was a profound shock, particularly following an era of political calm, apparent national unity, and widespread optimism about the strength and virtue of American society. No doubt Americans of the 1830s were equally shocked when the tumult and licentiousness of the Jacksonian era followed on the remembered-and perhaps exaggerated-heroics of the Revolutionary years...