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FREED. GUNTER PARCHE, 39, assailant of tennis star Monica Seles; by a judge; in Hamburg, Germany. Almost more shocking than the courtside stabbing of Seles during an April tournament was the decision handed down in the case by Judge Elke Bosse -- a suspended sentence. Bosse cited Parche's psychological problems and his expressions of remorse for the attack, which Parche claims was motivated by a desire to boost the prospects of Seles' rival Steffi Graf. The 19-year-old Seles was appalled by the sentence. ''What kind of message does this send to the world?'' she asked...
National Security Decision Directives are top-secret orders dealing with sensitive problems that threaten America's safety. But last week Vice President George Bush openly discussed one directive, signed by President Reagan in April, that will allow the U.S. military to play a more active role in the nation's fight against drug trafficking. Bush, who headed the President's National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, said he was publicizing the order in an effort to make ''every American understand the very real link between drugs and terrorism.'' Bush charged that Nicaragua's Sandinista regime was engaged in the drug trade...
...legion of poor and unemployed is a volcano ready to erupt.'' The wave of unrest was also directed against the unpopular Colonel Williams Regala, the Interior Minister and a member of the ruling junta. Regala was blamed for a clash between demonstrators and security forces that occurred in April at the notorious Fort Dimanche Prison during a memorial service for thousands of Haitians who died there during the Duvalier dictatorship. At least seven people were killed after protesters attempted to invade the fort. Perhaps most important, however, Haitians were upset about the disastrous state of the economy and the slow...
...those who have seen it, Pripyat is a place of silence, devoid of life. The only movement that suggests human habitation is the flutter of laundry on clotheslines. But the laundry has been there, day and night, since April 27. On that day, most of the town's 40,000 citizens hastily collected a few belongings and piled into buses that evacuated them from the vicinity of the shattered Chernobyl nuclear reactor only half a mile away. They did not know then, and do not know now, whether they will return home in months or years. Or ever. On this...
...Baby Calvin had meanwhile found a donor, and was in stable condition following surgery. But both infants faced a long and uncertain road ahead. So far, the ; longest any infant has survived with a neonatal heart is seven months, and last week two babies who had received transplants in April at Loma Linda were back in the hospital for rejection problems. The mother of one of the infants had a word of warning to the other parents: ''It's easy to put a heart in. It's hard to keep it there...