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...carnage was performed within sovereign borders. Many developing countries were disturbed by these atrocities, but they remained loath to compromise the U.N. Charter's criterion for use of outside force; the days of "intervention" by Western colonial empires were too recent. Beyond that, some U.N. members did not bear much scrutiny when it came to internal violence. While condemning bloodshed in Soweto, for example, Syria freely bombarded insurgents in the city of Hama...
Proponents of the law contend that babies should not be exchanged for money as if they were objects or slaves. Surrogacy should be treated like adoption, they say. In other words, a woman is still allowed to bear a child for the express purpose of giving it up to another, but she is no longer allowed to receive anything in return, not even a guarantee of visitation rights...
...this. Fatal illness has forced some celebrities out of the closet and prompted others to assert their sexuality as an act of conscience. The sheer volume of suffering has made homosexuals less exotic and more sympathetic. Slowly the message is getting across that gays neither invented the disease nor bear special responsibility for transmitting it, that the epidemic is universal. But however much AIDS may have brought a community together or advanced its cause, the price has been far too steep and it will go on being far too painfully paid...
...biggest surprise in Amsterdam was the talk about a new kind of AIDS. Dr. Jeffrey Laurence of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center described five instances of people who suffer from an AIDS-like illness and yet bear no trace of HIV anywhere in their body. When a similar case was reported at last year's AIDS conference in Florence, it was dismissed as a fluke. This year several scientists in the audience stood up to tell of other cases of non-HIV AIDS, bringing the total to about 30 -- a number that is small but impossible to ignore...
...some of this material in a Soviet magazine three years ago prompted a flood of recollections from other witnesses and led Radzinsky to distant provincial archives. He discovered a telegram that the local Bolshevik leaders had sent to Lenin the day before the killings. "The trial agreed upon . . . cannot bear delay, we cannot wait," it read, referring to earlier discussions in Moscow. "If your opinion is contrary inform immediately...