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...because he has been out of work too long. Violence may also be an echo of the past. Explains Straus: "When Mommy gives her two-year-old a slap for putting something dirty in his mouth, he is learning from infancy that those who love you hit you." Another trigger may be war or inflation. Says Gelles gloomily: "If heating goes up to a buck a gallon and we have a real recession, it's going to get worse...
...officials fret that bitterness over the contracts may handicap the small progress made by Washington in improving ties with the regime. The men close to Khomeini could not care less. One suspicion is that the Ayatullah is willing to single out U.S. firms for harsh treatment, thus hoping to trigger a total rupture in American-Iranian relations...
...town of Leon. In Managua last week, TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich and three other reporters were caught in an artillery bombardment as they attempted to keep a rendezvous with Sandinista leaders. Says the Baltimore Sun's Gilbert Lewthwaite: "It's Russian roulette. Everybody is trigger happy. You don't know where your enemy is or whom they're firing...
Savimbi's forces have stayed intact by relying on well-tested guerrilla survival tactics. To travel safely on roads that may be mined, UNITA convoys follow herds of elephants or buffalo; if these animated mine detectors trigger an explosion, the guerrillas know not only that the way is clear, but also that they are going to eat well. Now that large areas of south Angola are coming under its control, UNITA is setting up schools and agricultural cooperatives. But for the most part, Savimbi's forces are constantly on the move, carrying their possessions on their backs...
Peck termed the $30 billion spent annually on weapons production a "tragic waste. The most probable trigger for the holocaust will be a conscious decision by a world leader," Peck added...