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Since joining TIME four months ago, Thompson has interviewed cadets at West Point, traveled with Defense Secretary William Perry on a weeklong tour through four of the republics of the former Soviet Union and interviewed dozens of military families for an investigative report on the epidemic of domestic violence in the services. The story, which ran three weeks ago, prompted Maine Senator William Cohen to request that the Pentagon report back to the Senate on its efforts to combat such abuse...
...Despite U.S. satellites and other intelligence-gathering assets, the warning time of a North Korean attack will be negligible. A year ago, military officials predicted a weeklong alert. General Gary Luck, the senior U.S. commander in South Korea, cautions that his forces will have as little as 12 hours' warning. A congressional defense expert whittles that still lower, predicting that advance notice "is as long as it takes to load and fire an artillery shell: about 10 seconds...
This April, in the wake of the controversy unleashed by Roiple's book, the annual Take Back the Night will be held at Harvard-Radcliffe. Originally intended as a weeklong series of events designed to educate the community about violence against women, Take Back the Night has more recently been tagged with a radical feminist agenda that offers no place for more mainstream views. Women are unwilling to embrace an event they fear will cast them in the role of victim. Men are hesitant to become involved for fear of being labeled as evil aggressors. Thus, a vast majority...
...fiercest attacks in more than a decade, Israeli warplanes and artillery rained fire on southern Lebanese villages in retaliation for rocket attacks by the pro-Iranian guerrillas of Hizballah. Israel agreed to a U.S.-brokered truce in the weeklong offensive only after Hizballah pledged to stop guerrilla raids. More than half a million refugees have fled the U.N.-controlled southern security zone in recent weeks. The U.S. rebuked all parties, including Israel and Syria, for slowing the peace process...
...country's 800 licensed clinics or hospitals. The first step is a gynecological exam. Doctors make sure the pregnancy is in its early stages, and a social worker or psychologist discusses with her the decision to abort. Then the woman is sent home for a weeklong "reflection" period...