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...local coup attempt against the reform-minded mayor, whom hard-liners have been trying to force out for weeks. The period of greatest vulnerability for such an act, say several city officials, will be between Jan. 10 and the end of February, when food shortages are likely to be severest...
...Haitian soldiers opened fire on street crowds and threatened to kill Aristide, a 38-year-old priest, Venezuela's President Carlos Andres Perez sent a plane to fly him to safety. Perez offered Aristide refuge in Caracas and said his country would be ready to take part in "the severest of actions" to re-establish a legitimate government in Haiti...
...mutual hostility of Arabs and Jews ((has always been)) of the severest sort. Because most of their disagreements stem from differences in ideology and religion, they have never been able to settle them by peaceful arbitration...
...cold winds of Chicago are spreading across the network landscape. ABC has closed its Dallas bureau, scaled back its office in Boston and reduced its presence in Central America. NBC is laying off 20 news people by the end of the year. CBS, which is making the severest cuts, has axed at least 60 members of its news staff...
...children who suffer the severest problems are those who are physically or sexually abused. Many lose all self-esteem and trust. Michele, 15, who is a manic-depressive and an alcoholic, is the child of an alcoholic father who left when she was two and a mother who took out her rage by beating Michele's younger sister. When Michele was 12, her mother remarried. Michele's new stepbrother promptly began molesting her. "So I molested my younger brother," confesses Michele. "I also hit him a lot. He was four. I was lost; I didn't know how to deal...