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...families who have watched a child grow and flower, the effect is devastating. "At 15 my son returned to the day of his birth," says a father in Brook Park, Ohio. "He crawled on the floor, and his mother had to diaper him. He withdrew to his room and wouldn't come out except to eat. Once, his voices told him to grab a little girl in a store and undress her. Many times I saw my wife with bruises. I've learned a lot about schizophrenia since she died. I think living with my son killed...
...their successors were focusing on near-term marketing projects. Only one of the five, Zurn Industries, makers of boilers and pollution-control equipment for power plants, was interested in backing the grant. But Zurn was not prepared to carry the $3.5 million freight alone. In December 1990 Otisca reluctantly withdrew from the DOE Clean Coal Round No. 2 and forfeited its grant. Otisca still had contracts with clients to supply varying amounts of its fuel. But none of them was willing to put up the big stakes necessary to convert significant power plants from oil to Otisca Fuel...
...breakdown had been brewing since May. But the negotiations, known as the Convention for a Democratic South Africa, collapsed altogether when the African National Congress withdrew from the talks after the Boipatong massacre. The A.N.C. also called for South Africa's team to withdraw from the Olympic Games. The Congress accused the government of negotiating while fostering violence and charged supporters of its rival, the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party, with carrying out the massacre with the aid of government security forces. President F.W. de Klerk denied both allegations. But late in the week, a black mine-security guard told...
MCAD officials could only confirm that two ofthe seven guards filed complaints with the agency.MCAD ruled against one guard; the other guardreportedly withdrew his complaint...
...five parties in the government coalition quickly withdrew support for Suchinda following the King's intervention; on Sunday the Prime Minister resigned. Thus an uneasy peace returned to Bangkok after days of violence caused mostly by soldiers who had repeatedly fired into crowds of demonstrators. By Suchinda's count, 40 Thais died; the true death toll may never be known, but it probably reaches into the hundreds...