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...other defendants were given prison terms.) Unless Walsh can get the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the appeals-bench ruling, Poindexter is likely to benefit from the same reasoning applied to the North case. Walsh plans to take the case to the Supreme Court, but many experts expect him to lose. Says Joseph diGenova, the former U.S. attorney in Washington: "Congress didn't know the mess it was creating when it gave the witnesses immunity...
...barometer of a nation's health is more closely watched than life expectancy. Since the turn of the century, when record keeping began, the U.S. trend has been upward for all segments of the population. Life expectancy for whites has risen from 48 years in 1900 to more than 75 today. Blacks have fared even better, more than doubling the number of years they could expect to live, from 33 to nearly 70. Now, however, an alarming change is taking place. While life expectancy for whites is still climbing, it is dropping for blacks...
That was confirmed by figures released last week by the National Center for Health Statistics. Blacks on average can expect to reach only 69.2 years, down from 69.7 in 1984. Meanwhile, life expectancy for whites has moved from 75.3 years to 75.6. The latest figures are based on an examination of all death certificates (2,167,999) filed...
Walesa is still the favorite in next week's vote, but a victory could turn out to be a mixed blessing for him and for Poland. "Walesa can't produce an economic miracle, and that's exactly what the people expect," says Stanislaw Stomma, a member of the Polish Senate. "Tadeusz got used up, and now it's Walesa's turn." Some fear that the difficulty of delivering on people's hopes for economic revival will eventually prompt Walesa to abuse the undefined presidential powers in the new constitution, which is still being drafted. During the campaign Walesa hinted...
With the gulf crisis adding to anxiety over gasoline prices, the little cars may become more attractive than ever. This year a dozen French VSP manufacturers expect to sell as many as 15,000 of them. Martial Howa of Aixam Automobiles, a manufacturer in the southeastern French town of Aix-les-Bains, estimates that the market will grow 40% in the next two years. "Soon it will not be mostly a French phenomenon," he says. "Already we're exporting 15% of the 5,000 units we produce each year to Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Greece...