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...nation's murder victims are black, and 94% of those who commit these murders are black. The 6,000 or so Americans who lost their lives because of black-on-black violence in 1981 alone rivals the number of black servicemen killed during the twelve years of the Viet Nam conflict...
...Weinberger's. "Killing the DIVAD was vital to saving any fig leaf of Weinberger's viability on the Hill," said one senior congressional aide. Legislators have been pressuring the Secretary to cut marginal Pentagon programs to help alleviate the federal deficit crisis. Said Congressman Denny Smith of Oregon, a Viet Nam War veteran and a longtime opponent of the Sergeant York: "My congratulations to Secretary Weinberger for a courageous decision. Too bad he waited so long...
...disasters at Robins and Manville are only the two biggest cases in an epidemic of product-liability problems that has clogged courts, shaken American companies and raised the costs and risks of doing business. Last year Dow Chemical and other producers of Agent Orange, a defoliant used in Viet Nam, agreed to pay $180 million to veterans who said they developed cancer and other ailments because of exposure to the chemical. The claims were never proved, but the companies settled rather than face an endless siege in court. American Motors has paid out millions of dollars as a result...
Robert Brown, 42, Stow, Mass., international marketing director for the Boston Scientific Corp., a medical equipment company. An ex-Marine captain thrice decorated during Viet Nam duty, Brown was kicked in the face by one of the hijackers. The blow broke a blood vessel in his left eye that took eight days to heal. Later, Brown and three other captives were locked up for days in an underground room, 20 ft. square, which he believes was a command bunker. Brown, who kept a diary on folded white paper, got to be known as "the Coach" by his fellow hostages because...
...newcomers have arrived not from the Old World but from the Third World, especially Asia and Latin America. Of the 544,000 legal immigrants who came in fiscal 1984, the largest numbers were from Mexico (57,000, or more than 10%), followed by the Philippines (42,000) and Viet Nam (37,000). Britain came in ninth, with only...