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...People are still hungry. The Abkhazian issue has not been resolved. But it's much quieter now. There is a greater understanding that we have to build this country with our hands -- certainly with the help of our friends, but mostly by ourselves. No miracles will occur. It's only by work and struggle that we can build real democracy and real independence...
...sound as though he expects the country to be under U.S. military occupation quickly. An Army officer at the U.S. Atlantic Command in Norfolk, Virginia, who has read the cable traffic on Haiti guesses that if an invasion is ordered -- and it has not been yet -- it will occur during the first two weeks in August. Vague hints about the end of July had been dropped by some Administration officials, but they were based partly on a fear that the flow of refugees would become intolerable by then. In fact, it eased a bit last week -- on Wednesday...
...which looked at all U.S. crimes from 1987 through 1992, says that includes 16 percent of assaults, 8 percent of rapes and 7 percent of robberies, resulting in annual losses of about 1.8 million workdays and $55 million in wages. BTW: Other studies indicate that 4 percent of homicides occur at work...
...Incidentally, I do hope that, if the planned changes in faculty retirement contributions occur as scheduled on July 1, 1995, I will be able to give faculty salary increases that are higher than they otherwise would be," Clark wrote in the memo. "The ability to do so will depend on many factors; the picture will be clearer at budget-making time (early next spring...
Nope. The whites do fall apart, but the black politicians, thugs and businessmen they encounter are just as inventively corrupt as any alderman back in Indiana. At one point a wily middleman recommends that Boone employ a seer. Are his visions guaranteed to be accurate? Errors do occur, it is admitted. "What if a devil or a witch or an angry ancestor interferes with the divination process for its own purposes, maybe to mislead the client with a false message?" What if, indeed? The author's fizz of comic energy is as wild and scornful as Richard Condon's, back...