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...with one of his officers. As he sees it, he has to balance military pressure with the need to avoid "a humanitarian disaster." It's a risky line to walk and Tibon knows it: in August, he sent two soldiers to military jail when they shot dead a municipal electrician even though the man had permission to move about during the curfew. Shots echo up the mountainside at midday. In Tibon's command center, radios crackle with reports that two border policemen have been hit after their jeep broke down near the Casbah. It'll be past midnight when Tibon...
...chemical route." Despite her unhappiness with the government's actions, she finds the response from schoolchildren and young offenders, to whom she has taken her antidrug message, "hugely exhilarating. A 'Just Say No' approach would never work. But they are surprisingly receptive to hard facts." The daughter of an electrician and a chorus dancer, Greenfield enrolled at Oxford to study philosophy and psychology after graduating from school with an unusual mix of math, Greek and Latin. "I was interested in why people behaved the way they did, what makes them fall in love or start wars. I discovered that science...
...This is about 10,000 times better [than previous Springfests]. It’s a great crowd, great food, everybody had a great time,” said John R. Conway, a Harvard electrician...
...abandoned plants and ghost factories. Cities like this were once the industrial backbone of China's planned economy; at the now barren complexes, factory windows are shattered or caked with dust. In the center of town listless workers line crossroads with wooden placards strung across their chests reading "carpenter," "electrician," "plumber"?an army of unemployed laborers that locals say makes up 80% of the workforce. City Hall, a dingy building on Democracy Road, is where workers used to grovel at government offices for back pay or undistributed pensions...
Sometimes when a humble man steps into history's spotlight, he is transformed, and history with him. So it was when Lech Walesa, an unemployed electrician from the shipyards in Gdansk, Poland, formed the labor union Solidarity and led its struggle against the country's repressive communist government, demanding a series of democratic reforms. The regime at first made concessions and then cracked down harshly, arresting Walesa and outlawing Solidarity. But the movement could not be stifled, nor could Walesa. By the end of the '80s the government would collapse and Walesa would be elected President of Poland...