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...film by air. All roads leading north, south and east were closed because of fighting. Finally the frustrated Mattison decided to walk some ten miles to the Israeli lines with the week's work of six photographers. Mattison is no stranger to the hazards of war: he covered vicious combat in El Salvador for three years. But, he says of the gauntlet he ran last week, "There were nervous troops from three different militias and the Lebanese Army in the area. There was mortar and sniper fire all around. At one particularly bad moment on the way south...
...Andropov were tools of vicious repression, again true. Our government is quick to supply us with examples of Soviet ruthlessness and brutality. All the more reason, therefore, we should turn a fearful countenance to our own "Big Brother." Unfortunately, documented examples of CIA spying and murder are more often fed to the paper-shredder than to the media. The car-bombing of Cuban diplomat Orlando Letelier, however, is certainly attributable to the CIA during Bush's tenure. There are other examples, equally frightening, which space will not allow...
Louis's first claim about reverse discrimination is that it is "designed to remedy and redress past wrongs." The validity of other cases of redress is not questioned, he asserts, yet "affirmative action, which is based on the principle of redress, gets singled out for a special, vicious attack." Among such cases of redress he cites lawsuits brought against asbestos manufacturers 20 years after the original exposure to the workers. But in fact, his case points up the important deficiency in Louis's argument. The plaintiffs accuse the asbestos companies of being directly responsible for harming those who were exposed...
...game was winding down, the coach could look away from the field for a moment to the men on the sidelines. "Here was big, tough, mean, nasty, vicious Lyle Alzado with tears in his eyes," Flores said. "I had to turn away or I would have cried too." After 13 seasons on defensive lines all around the league, it had suddenly struck Alzado, 34, that he was a world champion. "It's the ultimate in sports," he said. "There's nowhere else to go. This might be my last game...
...years the arms race has spiraled sharply while the war on poverty has stalled. According to OCS-OCL statistics, as many graduates a decade ago planned to go into law as now, and as few looked to public service. They are the junior partners today fueling Bok's vicious cycle...