Word: vigilante
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He only calls a press conference when he has to, and last week he felt he had to. Too much has been building up. He might ignore a querulous press corps, but not the beginnings of a national feeling that a number of things were coming unstuck. His press conference...
Like Reagan, Mitterrand is alarmed by the Soviet military buildup. Particularly worried about the deployment of an estimated 250 Soviet SS-20 missiles aimed at Western Europe, he roundly endorses the projected deployment of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles in West Germany and other NATO countries. He agrees with...
In the U.S., foot-and-mouth disease has been stamped out, thanks to the Department of Agriculture's vigilant policies against importing livestock from infected areas. But elsewhere in the world, foot-and-mouth costs farmers tens of thousands of animals and billions of dollars a year. Scientists have...
The Federal Government is now beginning to face the problem. The FBI has given 500 of its 7,800 agents a course in computer-crime detection. A bill before Congress would provide new and tougher penalties for computer tampering: up to 15 years in prison and fines as high as...
Once in New York she learned with astounding speed. Her adagio in Bizet's Symphony in C becomes more fluent each time she is onstage. Unquestionably she is helped not only by Balanchine but by a younger mentor, her partner Sean Lavery, who is all of 24. Before, Lavery...