Word: units
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, the security unit was rocked by allegations by 11 former and security employees that they had been discriminated against by department management. A host of University officials--including Dowling and Police Chief Paul E. Johnson--denied the charges, and the Marshall Report bore their opinions...
Open conflict with the South African security forces would be self- defeating, but Buthelezi could unleash a newly organized Zulu "self- defense unit" of 5,000 men, and there are thousands of loyal Zulu irregulars who could complicate the elections with dead-of-night raids, assassinations and sabotage. If Buthelezi were to launch such subversion, De Klerk would be likely to fulfill his promise to sweep out the KwaZulu establishment, starting with its chief minister...
...calls from jittery executives anxious about the possibility of disgruntled former employees returning to offices with semiautomatics blazing. Requests for advice have increased "drastically" in the past two years, says Clinton R. Van Zandt, who studies mass murderers and other violent types for the FBI Academy's Investigative Support Unit, made famous by the film The Silence of the Lambs. Many inquiries are provoked by worries about specific employees, typically a depressed, explosively angry individual who is drinking heavily, ostentatiously collecting guns, or threatening corporate officials -- or all three. The FBI suggests this management technique: send the problem person...
...Outfield and Little Big League are scheduled for summer release; the Steven Spielberg production Little Heroes, about kids' football, is due out in the fall. To the lords of Hollywood, the lesson is plain. "Mass audiences are looking to feel good," says Joe Roth, who runs a production unit at Disney. "When teams win in these movies, you feel good that you've participated. They are very easy vehicles to get across emotion...
...medical attention for the children before they die. "Often there's a long medical record of these babies being brought barely breathing to hospitals by the parent who says they have a history of turning blue and losing consciousness," explains Dr. Michael Baden, director of the forensic-sciences unit of the New York State police and an expert witness at Hoyt's preliminary hearing. "This isn't the pattern for SIDS, where babies have no serious prior problems and are suddenly dead in their cribs...