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...cuts April 4. two months after the crisis declaration, the public policy and nursing colleges were saved and cuts in the other major areas were reduced. Only $16.9 million was trimmed off the university's budget for next year. While proponents of certain programs could celebrate their salvation, the grim prospect remained that the university might take the most drastic money-saving step--firing tenured faculty...
...Tyre and Sidon, while Israeli paratroopers launched large-scale attacks against Palestinian strongholds in the area. With concerted international help, Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis managed to obtain a tenuous ceasefire. As International Red Cross convoys rushed into the stricken areas with medical assistance, the country counted the grim toll: at least 265 civilians killed, more than 1,000 wounded...
Many local residents were quick to say that racial tensions were not involved, blaming soured police-neighborhood relations and Britain's current grim unemployment problem. Said one Brixton dweller: "This is not a race riot. We are not here to hurt white people. It is about jobs, money, all the rest. You can only take so much." But the fact is that tension has been building for months in Brixton, home of many of the 620,000 black West Indians who have immigrated to Britain, or been born there, since the 1950s. As in the U.S., racial friction...
...instance, in a sequence where Kazem sits on the beach and points to his scarred feet and ankles, the camera constantly shifts, focusing first on the Iranian's dark, weathered face and then on her plum, ivory face. The contrast is sharp and suggestive: for while Kazem describes, with grim experience painted on his face, the tortures he underwent, his wife looks on innocently, almost uncomprehendingly. In only a few frames, she becomes the personification of America, a nation that for the most part failed to accept or recognize either the extent or the nature of political persecution in Iran...
Their strong backs and steady nerves produced some of the most dramatic news film ever. Within half an hour of the shooting, the grim sequence was broadcast across the nation, and within two hours was transmitted around the world via satellite relay. As the tape was replayed, run through in slow-motion and held in stop action, viewers became almost numbed by what they saw. In many instances they were informed of breaking events mere seconds after anchormen. The adventure of live transmission was not, however, without its peril. Information was constantly being contradicted by new information. Most regrettably...