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Thus it came as a welcome surprise when a majority of Arab states voted late last week to commit troops to a pan-Arab force and to honor the worldwide U.N. economic embargo against Iraq. At an emergency session of the Arab League in Cairo, 12 of the 20 delegations agreed "to respond to the request by Saudi Arabia and other gulf states to deploy Arab forces to support the armed forces there." Significantly, their numbers included Egypt and Syria, which have two of the Middle East's largest armies. Algeria and Yemen abstained, while Jordan, Sudan and Mauritania expressed...
...athletes -- or of sports in general. Traditionally, athletics has been viewed as a healthy outlet for natural male aggressions. But the spate of assaults has many people convinced that today's athletic environment encourages sexual violence. Reliable statistics are hard to come by concerning the number of players who commit antisocial acts, sexual or otherwise, and many experts argue that male athletes are no more prone to violence than the general male population. Still, a three-year survey completed for the National Institute of Mental Health discovered that athletes participated in about a third of 862 sexual attacks on campus...
...worrisome pattern to date. "Even if we got several hundred reports involving suicide and Prozac, we wouldn't be alarmed, given how many people use the drug and the nature of the disease," notes Dr. Paul Leber, director of the FDA's division of neuropharmacological drug products. "Depressed people commit suicide." Nonetheless, the agency is watching closely, and Eli Lilly revised its product literature in May to alert physicians to the suggested association with suicide. "But we emphasize that there is no reason to believe a cause-and-effect relationship exists," says company spokeswoman Marie Abbott...
...garbage. They are not going to take any unfair competition from overseas. They are willing to fight for their rights. But they have no fear about competing on any playing field anywhere with anybody, because they think they and their people are that good and they are willing to commit resources to research and development. But they are the minority, and that's the concern...
...Compensating all these claims could lead to economic, political and social catastrophe in East Germany." Says Richard Motzsch, an expert on East German property claims at the West German Ministry for Inter-German Affairs: "Emotions are running very high on this issue, but we must be careful not to commit new injustices while trying to correct old ones...