Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Luiz Pinguelli Rosa, a nuclear specialist at the Brazilian Physics Society, "are continuing their nuclear programs." If funds for them are not halted, Rosa predicts, Brazil's military could produce a Hiroshima-size bomb in a year or two. Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, a Washington think tank, agrees. "The State Department has not been willing to recognize that Brazil is a proliferation risk," he says...
...more reason for Europeans to ponder the implications of Britain's sudden entry -- at long last -- into the European Monetary System's exchange control mechanism. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who had opposed the EMS from the beginning as an infringement on national sovereignty, was tacitly acknowledging her need to belong -- and her fear of losing influence over decisions in an E.C. in which the center of political gravity is shifting toward the newly united Germany. At the same time, however, Thatcher brought with her a philosophical challenge to the wider project, that of creating a common currency and central bank...
...things get so bad? During much of the first half of this century, large state hospitals were generally regarded as the best way to treat the mentally ill. Attitudes changed in the 1950s and '60s as tales of abuse in giant institutions multiplied. New drugs were introduced that helped control mental illness, and a concern for the civil rights of the disturbed led state legislatures to make it difficult to commit people to hospitals against their will...
...police have apprehended more than a dozen espionage suspects, and more arrests are expected. "The people in the West were foolish enough to believe that these files contained the story of only this ((Eastern)) side of the country," said Werner Fischer, the head of a citizens' committee that took control of the files during the interim period following the collapse of the Erich Honecker regime. "But there is plenty in there about the other side as well...
...clear that members of the anti-Saddam alliance have their own goals to pursue. Last week, for example, Lebanese President Elias Hrawi asked Syria to help him rout his rival, General Michel Aoun, from his stronghold in Beirut's Christian enclave, thus giving Damascus the opportunity to complete its control of Lebanon at a moment when the world is distracted by other events in the Middle East. Syrian President Hafez Assad ordered thousands of troops to Beirut to beef up the 10,000 Syrian soldiers already there. On Friday a lone gunman shot twice at Aoun, missing the general...